EU’s Elections May Have Unexpected Reverberations in Latin America
The advance of the far right could impact FDI decisions and set the tone for the future of trade with the region.
During her first presidential campaign in 2017, Marine Le Pen addressed a roaring crowd in the southeastern city of Lyon, blasting the policy of globalization and open borders. “Our leaders chose globalization, which they wanted to be a happy thing. It turned out to be a horrible thing,” she said on behalf of the invigorated French right. Since then, the narrative has become more popular in the political sphere of the so-called old continent, and last week’s European Union elections confirmed the trend. The significant rise in support for the far right in the EU Parliament's...
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