Last Sunday’s EP elections revealed some interesting trend both in the EU and in Bulgaria. We witnessed a total bifurcation – especially wherever the few voters opted for the small, EU-skeptic parties, professing nationalism. It turned out that those, who used to be outsiders for Brussels a year ago, now have their mandate – and if we can’t call them dangerous outsets, they are in most cases codgers.

Bulgaria Without Censorship, in a coalition with the IMRO-Agrarian People’s Union and Gergiovden managed to estrange the Roma population to such an extent that after the end of the vote Chair of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms Liutvi Mestan thanked the town of Lukovit for the support. As we all know, there have never been Turks in Lukovit, but “proto-Bulgarians” ( i.e. Roma) since times immemorial. This fact only comes to prove the simple truth that the more you use nationalism and ethnic intolerance, the better are your MEP chances. Thus the small and unknown party was shot straight into the big policy of the Euro-millionaires (MEPs) in Brussels. That was why Ataka failed – only the support of the Russian Cossacks via the Lyube band is not enough for a rise. Actually not a single major political force dared to play the right cards in the case with Crimea and South Stream, fearing not to blow it all up before the EU and Russia. The big ones – GERB and the socialists “lost”, that is - had their percentage reduced at the EP election, while the small parties marked a victory within the extremely low turnout.

The National Front of Marine Le Pen in France took, however, the solid 25.4 percent of votes, according to European criteria. It did it despite the boos of the so-called multicultural forces, giving 24/7 interviews on how the country was turning into another emirate with the Arabian Peninsula.

Perhaps the result of the British UKIP party deserves special attention, as it preaches independence to the max and a withdrawal from the EU. At the same time its representatives pretend 23 seats at the EP, or five more than the Conservative and the Labour parties. UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the poll results have been “unusual” for the entire British history over the past century.

The conservatives in Germany are winning the EP election with 36 percent. That country sends representatives of 14 parties to the EP and those will share 96 seats – the highest number among all EU members. That is where Alternative for Germany – a small EU skeptical party, established by university tutors, sneaks in.

The rightist wings celebrate across other parts of Europe too. Hot Conchita Wurst's compatriots from the Freedom Party of Austria failed to win the "Political Eurovision", but added other two EP seats to the previous two it had.

Actually the EP is not changing that much – the socialists, along with the liberals are still turning the wheel in the process. The main thing that unites the winners is conservatism. Europe is now sick of the ongoing changes and wants the good old days, though those were not all that good. People got tired of the new things that have piled over the past few decades. And it is only natural for foreigners to be kicked out, whenever the labor market shrinks, just like during the first Great Depression. Trying to be politically correct I would like to point out one more thing –it is for the same reason that nationalistic parties were that popular during the First Depression.

English version: Zhivko Stanchev