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Ekspertka z think tanku Centre for European Reform Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska upatruje przyczyn tej tendencji w tym, że główne siły polityczne w Europie niewiele różnią się w kluczowych kwestiach. "To powoduje, że dla wyborców coraz bardziej atrakcyjne stają się partie radykalne, nie tylko antyeuropejskie, lecz również proeuropejskie, oferujące odważne propozycje dla przyszłości projektu europejskiego" - powiedziała PAP analityczka.

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, a senior research fellow with the Centre for European Reform in Brussels, said the Austria scandal is timely ammunition for those who warn that many populist parties are deeply compromised by their ties to Mr Putin. “It emboldens those who question the populists’ good intentions and who call for greater transparency in the way these parties have been funded and investigations into their links to Russia,” she said.

EP rinkimai, žinoma, neprilygsta balsavimui renkant parlamentą, kuris turi įvykti iki šių metų lapkričio. Kaip 15min teigė Europos reformų centro (CER) analitikė Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska, „visos partijos jau ruošiasi, pripažinkime, svarbesniems parlamento rinkimams“.

In an area like food hygiene, explains Sam Lowe at the Centre for European Reform, the UK cannot benefit from the absence of checks to food exports to Switzerland and Norway. They will be subject to the same full border inspections as the EU is demanding in the event of a ‘no deal’. “The Swiss and Norway agreements could only be bare bones in a ‘no deal’ world since so much is dependent on the EU-UK relationship. It was pitched as a ‘we’ve done it’, when in reality it’s only the start of a process,” he tells me.

Zatem na co liczy May? Zdaniem Agaty Gostyńskiej-Jakubowskiej z renomowanego londyńskiego think tanku Centre for European Reform (CER) wybory do Parlamentu Europejskiego mogą przerwać obecny impas. Sondaże wskazują, że wygra je z ok. 30-procentowym poparciem nowa Partia Brexit Nigela Farage'a, która rośnie na fali rozczarowania brexitowców opóźnianiem rozwodu.

Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said: “Many people in Brussels expect a further extension of Article 50, well into 2020. They think that the EU will continue to extend Article 50 rather than be seen to promote no deal.”

Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, has just published a very good paper addressing exactly this question. Here is an extract.EU officials don’t trust British MPs to prevent no deal and some of them think it could happen by accident. For example, what if a Boris Johnson-type figure became prime minister in October, and he or she was determined to leave without a deal?

UK Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins is in Brussels for day two of talks with the EU, this time with his commission counterpart Sabine Weyand. Charles Grant at the CER lays out how some of the EU27’s unity is cracking but exasperation with the Brits is undiminished: “The conduct of the British political class has eroded much of the goodwill that European politicians and officials felt towards the UK. If the British wish to avoid no deal by asking for further extensions they should avoid losing the remaining goodwill that still lingers in certain capitals.”