Defeat: Norbert Hofer and European Union

defeat: In neither case is it clear what happens next, according to The Waterloo Record. But EU leaders need to think urgently about what they can do across the region to support orderly government in the service of liberal principles. Governments across the European Union were just beginning to celebrate the defeat of Austria hard-right Freedom Party in Sunday presidential election when the news arrived from Italy Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will resign after his crushing defeat in the referendum on constitutional reform. Their failure to act up to now is the thread that ties these and other populist revolts together. Norbert Hofer leads a movement that not long ago would have been seen as an extremist outlier proudly nationalist, anti-immigrant and anti-EU. Hofer was beaten in his bid for the presidency by Alexander Van der Bellen of the Green party running as a moderate independent but he won an impressive 48.3 per cent of the vote. Austria Freedom Party isnt going away. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.