JD Vance's warning on Europe's future shines spotlight on continent's growing list of problems

Following Vice President JD Vance's informing that Europe was astatine hazard of ‘engaging successful civilizational suicide,' the continent has travel nether the microscope for mostly failing to woody with wide migration from mostly Third World countries. Associated with that has been a monolithic emergence successful convulsive transgression and a failing economy. 

Freedom of code is nether onslaught arsenic galore kick of a two-tier justness strategy and, making things adjacent much problematic, Europe's system is not performing arsenic expected. 
 

United Kingdom

The U.K.’s system has remained stagnant for the past 3 years with nary maturation successful per capita income. "The state has pathetic performance, says Ben Habib, president of the Great British Political Action Committee, and erstwhile co-deputy person of Reform UK. "The U.K. has go adjacent worse than Europe."

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The Houses of Parliament successful London, England, connected Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Migration is present a nationalist talking point. Immigration accrued to betwixt 1.2 and 1.3 cardinal successful 2022 and 2023, up from astir 800,000 earlier the pandemic. It’s causing friction.

"National togetherness is present being torn to shreds arsenic unprecedented levels of wide migration alteration parts of our state beyond recognition," observed Conservative Party Member of Parliament Robert Jenrick successful a file for the UK Conservative & Reformer Post. "We person imported taste and spiritual tensions, meaning that conflicts connected the different broadside of the satellite play retired connected Britain’s streets."

Earlier this week, the State Department said it was monitoring the lawsuit of a pistillate successful Britain who was enactment connected proceedings for holding a motion offering counseling to women extracurricular an termination installation successful the United Kingdom. 

Fox News Digital reported the pistillate said, "Great Britain is expected to beryllium a escaped country, yet I’ve been dragged done tribunal simply for offering consensual speech … peaceful look is simply a cardinal right—no 1 should beryllium criminalized for harmless offers to converse."

New Scotland Yard connected October 2, 2008, successful London, England. ((Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images))

Violent assaults person besides marred galore parts of the U.K., erstwhile compared to different members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD.) Scotland topped the database with 1,487 assaults per 100,000 people, according to information from the United Nations Office connected Drugs and Crime. England and Wales ranked fig 3 connected the database with 730 convulsive assaults per 100,000 residents.

Fox News Digital antecedently reported that Britain was facing a escaped code situation owed to the caller left-leaning government, overzealous policing and courts cracking down connected state of expression. Last August, the authorities warned its citizens to beryllium mindful of posting contented deemed violative and threatened imprisonment. The Crown Prosecution Service posted a informing to societal media level X, which was amplified by the government’s authoritative societal media accounts, informing citizens, "Think earlier you post!"
 
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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives astatine the White House, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, successful Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo)

France

France’s system has expanded successful each of the past 4 years, but the complaint of maturation slowed dramatically. France besides has a precocious indebtedness level that volition marque it hard for the system to turn fast, Venetis says.

Migration is simply a continuing occupation successful France with an influx of 317, 000 immigrants from extracurricular the EU successful 2022, up from 222,000 successful 2013.

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Right-wing politicians, specified arsenic those successful the National Rally, are highlighting the friction that the influx of radical who don’t privation to integrate into French society. National Rally person Marine Le Pen, who up until this week was a starring campaigner for the country's 2027 statesmanlike election, was conscionable fixed a two-year situation condemnation by a French court, which recovered her and different enactment colleagues blameworthy of embezzling nationalist funds. Le Pen called the condemnation a ‘death sentence,’ and said she felt they were "only interested" successful preventing her from moving for president.

Violent assaults successful France ranked adjacent the mediate of the OECD database with 310 cases per 100,000 successful the population.

United States Vice-President JD Vance addresses the assemblage during the Munich Security Conference astatine the Bayerischer Hof Hotel successful Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025.  (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Germany

Germany’s system has been successful a recession for the past 2 years. Meanwhile, the unemployment complaint accrued to 6.3% successful March, from 5.9% past April. That’s partially owed to soaring vigor prices and contention from China.

"People are not blessed astir the information that unemployment is picking up," says Konstantinos Venetis, an economist astatine TS Lombard. He besides says the statistic disguise galore workers' reduced paid hours connected the job. "The magnitude of radical connected this presumption has gone up considerably."

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Migration surged to 1.6 cardinal non-EU immigrants successful 2022, up from little than fractional a cardinal successful 2021.
Germany’s right-wing populist AfD enactment has pushed to deport migrants seeking asylum, and its connection gained traction with voters during February's nationalist election, wherever it came successful 2nd with 20.7% of the vote. The winning blimpish Christian Democrats enactment was forced to follow stronger migration policies arsenic a effect of AfD's occurrence with voters.

The state had a comparatively precocious fig of convulsive assaults, ranking sixth successful the OECD database with 630 cases per 100,000 people.

Italy

Giorgia Meloni is seen during a property conference. Giorgia Meloni, person of the far-right and national-conservative enactment Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy), commented connected the party's triumph astatine the Italian elections, held connected 25 September 2022, astatine Parco Principi Hotel successful Rome. (Valeria Ferraro/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The third-largest system successful the EU has grown each 4th since the extremity of the pandemic, although, similar galore countries, the complaint of maturation has slowed. 

At the aforesaid time, the indebtedness level arsenic a percent of GDP dropped to 135% past twelvemonth versus 138% successful 2022 erstwhile Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni took over.

Meloni has been credited with her hard stance connected amerciable migrants. In 2024, the fig of migrants totaled 67,317, down astir 60% from 157,651 the erstwhile year. The driblet is astatine slightest partially owed a woody betwixt Italy and Albania to heighten borderline controls, creating ineligible ways to immigrate and deterring amerciable introduction to the country. 

Violent assaults were debased astatine 110 per 100,000 residents.

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Poland

Poland’s system grew by 2.9% past year, somewhat much than the estimated 2.8% maturation successful the U.S., each portion beefing up its defence assemblage and lodging an influx of Ukrainians owed to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
"Poland is simply a powerhouse and has nationalist pride," Habib says. "It’s a phenomenal country."

The state besides has a debased level of asylum requests of 9,513 and 17,038 successful 2023 and 2024, respectively. That compares to 237,314 successful neighboring Germany.

Polish farmers and different protesters stitchery successful downtown Warsaw to protestation the European Union's clime policies and Poland's pro-EU government, successful Warsaw, Poland, connected May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Levels of asylum claims successful Poland are apt to stay debased arsenic Prime Minister Donald Tusk doubled down connected amerciable immigration. Late past period (March) helium temporarily suspended the rights of immigrants to assertion asylum. 

"I judge that it is indispensable to fortify the information of our borders and the information of Poles," said Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, who signed disconnected connected the bill, arsenic reported by Euro News. 

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Poland had the lowest convulsive battle ranking successful the OECD database astatine 2 cases per 100,000

Hungary

Hungarian Prime Minister and President of EU Council Viktor Orban speaks arsenic helium attends the League's yearly gathering successful Pontida, northbound of Milan, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Hungary’s system suffered a setback successful 2023 but is present recovering, with maturation of 0.4% successful the 4th fourth of past year. Analysts astatine Trading Economics task that the state volition turn by 2.7% adjacent twelvemonth and 3.6% successful 2027.

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Migration from extracurricular Europe has remained debased astatine 57,000 successful 2022 versus 45,000 successful 2023. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban precocious tweeted: "Don’t beryllium acrophobic to basal alone. When 26 others accepted wide migration, we built a obstruction and said no. Now, much and much PMs are saying precisely what Hungary said 10 years ago—they’ve realized we were right."
 

Violent assaults successful Hungary ranked debased with 124 cases per 100,000 people.

Fox News Digital's Kristine Parks contributed to this article.