There Is No Visible ‘Trump Effect’ for Europe’s Populist Parties
- A new study shows Brexit may have damped a Eurosceptic surge
- In France, support for Le Pen unchanged from before U.S. vote
Marine Le Pen has made no effort to hide her glee at either Brexit or Trump’s success.
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Donald Trump’s election has Europe’s own populists hoping, and others fearing, that they can ride the wave of anti-elitist sentiment to power. That may come to pass, but not just yet.
An analysis of opinion polls taken in the days since Trump’s upset suggest it gave no immediate bounce to his Old World counterparts. A report this week by German think tank Bertelsmann Stiftung said that Brexit may have produced a flight to safety toward the troubled union rather than a Eurosceptic surge.