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Europe had for decades appeared to be immune from American culture wars. But no longer: Many of the same symbolic conflicts that have polarized the United States are beginning to reshape Europe’s political landscape.
From Italy’s proposed ban on “gender relativism” in schools to Hungary’s restrictions on LGBTQ+ expression, and from France’s internal debate over secularism to the U.K.’s new fixation on “wokeness” to the rising influence of the nationalist Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany), or AfD, party and its agenda in Europe’s largest economy, a European version of culture wars have taken hold, one that mixes local culture and tradition with anxiety over rapid social change.
In the U.S., opposite sides in these battles are largely sorted along political party lines. But in Europe, new moral battlegrounds often cut across traditional coalitions.
In Rome, Budapest, Paris, London, Berlin and other capitals, once-stable political loyalties are giving way to shifting moral alliances, creating a confusing political landscape shaped by moral questions.
Conservative Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has defended the notions of “the natural family” and “biological truth” as part of a pushback against what she calls “progressive gender ideology,” creating an unlikely alliance with left-of-center Catholics.
Meanwhile, Hungary’s Viktor Orban has been a vocal supporter of what he calls “Christian Europe,” despite charges from Brussels that his methods are authoritarian. Meanwhile, Orban remains steadfast to his argument that Hungary’s cultural identity is under siege.
In France, debates over whether to allow Muslim clothing, from headscarves to full-body abayas, in schools and whether secular government policies are discriminatory appear in news headlines regularly.
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Author: Joe Weber
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