The latest EU elections have shocked the establishment as right-wing groups continue to make astonishing gains, sending the message that Euro-Skepticism is here to stay.

“Brussels thought that the migrant crisis mostly setting and the troublesome process of Brexit would steer voters towards liberalism,” said an observer in Brussels, “they were grossly overconfident”.

Dr. Werner Patzelt, a political science professor at the Technical University of Dresden noted that Brussels would typically see deeper integration as a way to resolve its problems, but that there was “a feeling that there is too much integration in Europe, that there is too much government by Brussels“.

Unsurprisingly, Brussels was still blindsided by the results of this election because it continues to mentally downplay the right-wing victories of Austria, Britain, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. Hopefully, the latest election results will send an wake-up call to the EU establishment.

UK author and historian John Laughland stated that the people themselves have woke up long ago. “In most European states, there is a de facto coalition, or at least a strong area of agreement, between the two or three main political parties in each country,” Laughland explained, “People have had enough of this coalition of parties that pretend to be opposed to each other but are in fact in agreement on everything.“

In other words, the EU elections are simply a scam. Laughland continued by stating that “people are fed up with this fake democracy where you seem to have a choice but in fact there isn’t a choice.”

As a result, the pro-EU faction consisting of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and European People’s Party (EPP) lost their parliamentary majority. Their best option may be to team up with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) to form the “alliance of the losers”, as Political Journalist Luc Rivet calls it.

He simply concluded that nationalism and freedom, not globalization, would be the latest political trend: “The people don’t believe in the present Europe anymore, they don’t want the ‘United states of Europe,’ they want their sovereign states.”