Andrea Mammone is a historian at Royal Holloway, University of London, writing and commenting on European politics and the far right. The opinions in this article belong to the author. Unemployment. The problem is that these issues have collided with the refugee crisis and poor economic growth across the continent, leading some to conclude that their countries are in decline. This challenge to the status quo has, it seems, been aggravated by new forms of rebellion and political activism, made possible through the Internet -- which is something that traditional political parties seem to have not gotten their heads around yet.

Source: CNN March 16, 2017 14:26 UTC