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Debates over immigration and identity aren’t the only existential politics shaping the West.

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Climate change threatens the West’s far right
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The results were largely as expected. By Monday, after the European Union’s 28 nations participated in an election for the bloc’s parliament, the continent’s traditional factions — the Social Democrats and the mainstream right — ended up the biggest losers<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf39c/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/11/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>, deprived of a majority for the first time. Voters drifted in different directions that seemed in line with the broader fragmentation of European politics, opting for euroskeptic, ultranationalist parties on the right and upstart liberal and environmentalist parties instead of the old center left.

The potential rise of the far right dominated news coverage ahead of the vote, and it was indeed significant. In Britain, the newly formed Brexit Party led by anti-immigration gadfly Nigel Farage<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/3a0a/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/12/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11> won the most votes in an election that became a referendum on the country’s painful wrangling to quit the European Union<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf39d/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/13/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>. In France, the party of far-right leader Marine Le Pen narrowly eclipsed<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf39e/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/14/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11> that of centrist President Emmanuel Macron. In Italy, the far-right League of Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini won more than a third of the vote, cementing its place as the country’s preeminent right-wing party.

“The rules are changing in Europe,” Salvini declared in Milan on Monday. “A new Europe is born.”

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But, at least as far as the stewardship of the European Union is concerned, the far right will remain on the margins. That’s thanks to the strong showing from liberal, pro-European parties as well as a dramatic surge of votes for the Greens. A likely alliance between these forces and centrist parties means the E.U.'s agenda could be even more antithetical to that of the euroskeptics who often hog the headlines<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a0/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/16/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>.

“As always, a wide variety of voices will be represented in the European Parliament,” Stavros Lambrinidis, the E.U.'s top envoy in Washington, told Today’s WorldView. “There is a clear majority that supports the European Union and that will work as in the past to make our union stronger, more secure, happier and wealthier.”

The biggest surprise may be the gains of the Greens<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a1/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/17/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>. They finished second in Germany, third in France and gained ground across Northern Europe and parts of Western Europe. Their victory in Germany came largely at the expense of the Social Democrats, who, despite years as part of the bulwark of center-left politics on the continent, have hemorrhaged support to parties on both sides of the political fringe. Their role over the past decade as the junior partner in a grand coalition led by center-right Chancellor Angela Merkel exposed them to anti-establishment ire.

That isn’t the only reason behind their rise. “More than a protest vote, Green strength also rests on deep concern in Germany about the state of the planet. German voters told pollsters that the environment was their top concern going into the vote, and that was apparent in the outcome,” my colleagues reported<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a2/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/18/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>. “Exit polls in Germany showed the Greens to be the overwhelming top choice for young voters and for first-time voters. The party also did especially well in cities, while taking voters from both the center-left and the center-right parties.”

It’s not an isolated trend. In neighboring France, some 25 percent of voters aged 18-25 voted for the Greens<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a3/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/19/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11> — compared with 15 percent for the far-right National Rally, whose proponents long claimed they represented the aspirations of the country’s youth<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a4/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/20/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>. Green parties also did well in Britain, Austria, Sweden, Ireland, Denmark and the Netherlands. From winning just 17 seats in the 751-seat European Parliament in 2014, the Greens secured 69 seats this time around<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a3/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/21/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>, a haul that may make them the fourth largest bloc in the continental assembly.

“This is confirmation for us that the topics we’ve been working on for years are the topics that matter to the public in their everyday life and for the future of their children,” said Sergey Lagodinsky, a newly elected Green member of the European Parliament from Germany, to my colleagues<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a5/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/22/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>. “We had times when we wondered: Is this a fringe agenda? Now we know it’s not. It’s the mainstream agenda.”’

In recent months, massive demonstrations over climate change have rocked European capitals, dwarfing the mobilizations of the continent’s far right. Fridays for Future — a movement inspired by Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a6/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/23/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11> — has seen countless European teenagers walk out of school to protest climate inaction. It underscores a growing consensus among the next generation<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a1/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/24/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11> of voters that governments must do more to mitigate environmental disaster and an impatience with political parties that refuse to recognize the urgency of the situation.

Climate change, said an editorial in France’s Liberation newspaper, “has become the principal criteria of judging political action in the European Union.”

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For that reason, it’s causing the once-ascendant far right a headache. “The Greens will destroy this country and our job must and will be to fight the Greens,” Alexander Gauland, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany, told reporters<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a3/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/26/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>.

Gauland’s party entered Germany’s Bundestag, or parliament, for the first time after elections in 2017 on a platform that inveighed against the spectral threat of immigration and Islam. It doesn’t believe that men are contributing to climate change, a view shared to varying degrees by other far-right parties in Europe as well as President Trump<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a8/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/27/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>.

But future generations on both sides of the pond may be more animated by fear of planetary calamity<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3a9/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/28/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11> and may seek to mobilize politics in their countries to better adapt their societies to the changing climate. That’s the bet that insurgent Democrats are making in Congress<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3aa/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/29/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11> and that jubilant Greens and other liberal factions have made in Europe.

“The Greens represent the only project of the future,” French Greens leader Yannick Jadot said Monday on local television.

To be sure, their appeal remains limited mostly to Western and Northern Europe’s more affluent societies. But their growing popularity shows that debates over immigration and identity aren’t the only existential politics shaping the West. Indeed, there’s a collective cause that’s worth rallying people around, rather than dividing them.

For European liberals, it’s a welcome reckoning.

“Many citizens have mobilized against the dark forces of rightwing populism,” wrote French journalist and Guardian columnist Natalie Nougayrède<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3ab/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/30/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>. “For European citizens, some fundamental values and achievements turned out to be worth cherishing, not throwing away in a fit of anger. Perhaps there is more common sense and moderation than we feared in Europe’s political landscape. The center is holding."

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• There’s plenty more Post coverage on the European elections. My colleague Karla Adam weighs in from London, reporting on the calamitous result for the country’s Conservatives and Labour, the two mainstream parties whose fumbling and equivocating over Brexit drove voters to reject them in favor of smaller parties that had a clearer line for or against leaving the European Union<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3ac/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/31/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>:

“Nigel Farage’s single-issue Brexit Party was the clear winner of the elections, with the potential to impact the race over who becomes the next British prime minister.

“The pro-E.U. Liberal Democrats and the Greens — who also have a simple message on Brexit: Stop it — made significant gains as well. Overall, support for all the parties that are unabashedly pro-European was slightly higher than for those that are pushing for a hard Brexit.

“In other words, Britain is as divided as ever.

“Analysts said the impact of the elections could see Britain’s two main political parties face growing pressure to move away from the middle ground to support even more extreme positions on Brexit.

“In the race to replace Theresa May, who on Friday announced that she would step down as British prime minister, the issue of whether to back a once unthinkable ‘no-deal’ Brexit — like Farage does — is now dominant. Nine Conservative members of Parliament have publicly declared they will compete for the top job.”

• From Rome, my colleague Chico Harlan looks at Salvini’s strengthening hand, and a new target of far-right Italian ire — the pope. Harlan explains<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3ad/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/32/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>:

“The far right’s success was particularly noteworthy because it came in the backyard of the Roman Catholic Church, whose leader, Pope Francis, has offered near-weekly warnings about nationalism, closed-border sentiment and the forces propelling the far right.

“Salvini, the Italian deputy prime minister and interior minister, did more than simply challenge Francis’s open-door advocacy. He also portrayed himself as a devout torchbearer for the faith — with an alternative message. On the campaign trail, he kissed his rosary beads. He referred to one saint after another. He called on the Immaculate Heart of Mary to ‘bring us to victory’ and said he was upholding Francis’s predecessor Pope Benedict XVI’s vision of a Europe with Judeo-Christian roots. When Salvini, at a major rally in Milan, directly addressed Francis, the crowd let out some boos.

“There have been other rare cases in modern Italy in which major political movements and the Catholic Church have been at odds, most notably when the Communist Party vied for power in the 1970s. But the League’s success stands out, because it has made its pitch to voters in starkly religious terms, offering a ‘different way of being believers,’ said Paolo Pombeni, a professor emeritus of European political history at the University of Bologna.”

• President Trump had an eventful visit to Japan, which included a meeting with the country’s new emperor, a stop at a Sumo-wrestling match, and a press conference where he appeared to side with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by denying that North Korea had recently fired ballistic missiles or violated U.N. Security Council resolutions. My colleagues have more<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3ae/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/33/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>:

“He also again sided with Kim over former vice president Joe Biden, after his Democratic rival was branded a ‘fool of low I.Q.’ by North Korea’s state media for calling the North Korean leader a dictator and a tyrant.

“At a joint news conference with Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, Trump gave cover to Kim as he directly contradicted his national security adviser, John Bolton, as well as Abe, by arguing that Pyongyang had not launched ballistic missiles this month or violated U.N. Security Council resolutions…

“Trump’s comments were reminiscent of his repeated statements that he believed the statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country had not interfered in the 2016 U.S. election — an assessment in direct conflict with U.S. intelligence conclusions.

“On Saturday, Bolton had told reporters there was ‘no doubt’ that North Korea had violated the Security Council resolutions by firing short-range ballistic missiles.”

• Trump also changed tune on Iran, denying that his administration sought regime change in Iran, no matter the rhetoric of some of his advisers and the U.S.’s recent deployments of additional forces in the Middle East.

“We’re not looking for regime change. I want to make that clear,” Trump said at the joint news conference. “We’re looking for no nuclear weapons.”

It’s a confusing declaration, given the recent ratcheting up of tensions in the region, as well as Trump’s decision to scrap an existing arms control agreement that ensured Iran would not be able to be build nuclear weapons.

Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, summed up the situation to my colleagues<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3af/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/34/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>: “What Trump articulated in Japan was another reminder that his main problem with the Iran nuclear deal was that it was signed by Obama. Given Trump’s eagerness for a public summit and deal with Tehran, it’s conceivable Iran’s leaders could sign a more favorable deal with Trump than they did with Obama. But the pride and mistrust of Iran’s Supreme Leader makes him more inclined to subject his population to another year of sanctions and economic malaise rather than do a deal with Trump.”

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[Muslim men leave a mosque in Beijing after prayers on May 10, the first Friday of Ramadan. (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)]

Muslim men leave a mosque in Beijing after prayers on May 10, the first Friday of Ramadan. (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)

A bought silence

In China, authorities are bullying members of the Muslim minority Uighur community to eat and drink before sundown — in violation of Islamic rules for Ramadan — with the implicit threat of punishment if they do not, activists say.

But Muslim-majority nations have been almost entirely silent<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3b0/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/35/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11> — apparently part of calculated policies to avoid angering China. And much of the tone toward China in the Muslim world has been set by Saudi Arabia, which carries economic and religious clout. Chinese media have reported that both King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, have expressed support for a relationship with China, with Mohammed even appearing to condone China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims when he visited China earlier this year.

As many as 3 million ethnic Uighur Muslims are incarcerated in huge detention camps across Xinjiang, a Pentagon official recently estimated<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3b1/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/36/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>. And Saudi Arabia’s acquiescence showed the fruits of a relentless campaign by China to quell any criticism from Muslim-majority nations.

Saudi Arabia’s position also highlighted the dramatic shifts in the kingdom’s policies under the leadership of the crown prince, who seeks to craft a new Saudi identity that leans more heavily on nationalism than religion. In practice, that has meant abandoning some of the kingdom’s long-standing policies, including its leading role in condemning Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslim minorities around the globe.

Saudi Arabia is hardly alone in downplaying the plight of the Uighurs. Other large Muslim-majority states — including Pakistan, Iran and Egypt — have also been conspicuously quiet. But Saudi Arabia’s silence has been more notable, given its traditional claims to leadership in the Muslim world, analysts said.

There’s plenty that ties China and Saudi Arabia. For starters, China is the world’s biggest importer of Saudi oil. But Saudi Arabia is also a critical market for China. It is the biggest market in the Middle East for Chinese goods and for contract services such as construction. There is also political symbiosis. China has an official policy of noninterference in other countries’ domestic affairs, and that is a “shared value,” said Dawn C. Murphy, an assistant professor of international security studies at the Air Force Air War College.

Riyadh appreciated Beijing’s silence on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, especially amid the outcry from other world powers, analysts say. And now Saudi Arabia is making sure to repay the favor by staying quiet about Xinjiang. — Anna Fifield and Kareem Fahim

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For more on European elections, a piece in Politico notes five takeaways from the contests' results. Meanwhile, a column in the New York Times looks at what the United States can learn from rising illiberalism worldwide, one in The Post examines how Narendra Modi won reelection despite India's ailing economy and, in the Atlantic, a profile of an American Christian pastor fighting for abortion rights.

5 lessons from the European election<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3b2/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/40/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>
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If the E.U. no longer faces the risk of collapse, it could still become ungovernable.
Dalibor Rohac | Politico
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How liberalism loses<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3b3/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/43/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>
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An inflexible agenda and a global retreat.
Ross Douthat | The New York Times
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If it’s ‘the economy, stupid,’ why did Modi win?<https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13bf3b4/5cecc058fe1ff666ca147a3a/YmVubnBoaWxAaG90bWFpbC5jb20%3D/46/84/a42ddcc56ad7fa86f9417e572a159d11>
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The question of leadership may have diverted attention away from the state of the economy, but Modi’s honeymoon will be short-lived.
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Jes Kast, a minister in the United Church of Christ, believes the procedure should be fully legal and accessible. Her path to that position has been complicated.
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Ernest Hemingway had just returned to London, after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, when he ran into Roald Dahl, then a British Royal Air Force officer.
Peter Moreira | The Columbia Journalism Review
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The first test of pharmaceutical companies’ liability in the nation’s opioid crisis is scheduled to open Tuesday in a Norman, Okla., courtroom.
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