‘Hormonal’ voters could hand hard right victory, EU chief fears
Speaking at a five-star hotel in the Italian Alps in the days before Christmas, Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, shocked an elite audience of officials, diplomats and think tankers.
He warned that “hormonal” European voters could deliver an international political shock greater than Donald Trump being elected as American president for the second time.
“I think the European elections could be more dangerous than the American one,” he told the visibly alarmed gathering in Aosta Valley’s Grand Hôtel Billia. “I’m afraid that Europeans will vote based on fear.”
Borrell, 76, a Spanish Socialist and former foreign minister, was referring to the fact that illegal immigration has hit its highest level since Europe’s last migration crisis in 2016, which drove a political backlash including
