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Austria and Denmark have become the latest countries to break away from the EU s vaccines strategy, raising fears that the bloc s unity in the face of the coronavirus pandemic is crumbling. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Austria would work with Israel and Denmark on second generation coronavirus vaccines and “no longer rely on the EU in the future”. It is widely seen as a rebuke to the European Commission s procurement scheme for vaccines, which has lagged far behind the UK
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The Danish Peopleâs Party, a populist, anti-immigration party formed in 1995, is currently seeing its worst polling numbers in two decades. The right-wing party has used its anti-immigration platform effectively since emerging in the late 1990s, playing kingmaker in a number of elections and subsequently wielding its influence on the policies of successive governments, although it never took the step into coalition governing in its own right. A new poll from political analysis institute Voxmeter on behalf of Ritzau now places the Danish Peopleâs Party (Dansk Folkeparti, DF) at its lowest ebb since the turn of the century in terms of voter support.
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Siv Jensen, leader of Norway s Progress Party, at the press conference announcing her party s decision to leave Norway s ruling coalition. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB Scanpix / AFP
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The coronavirus crisis has made the populist right in Denmark and Norway almost vanish off the map. Can they find a way back after the pandemic? The Danish People s Party now polling at less than a third of the share of the vote it won in 2015. A poll by Voxmeter, published on Monday, gave it the support of just 6.7 percent of the electorate, quite a come down for a party which in 2015 won 21.1 percent of the vote. Over in Norway, a Kantar poll published on May 2 gave the Progress Party just 8 percent of the vote, half what it won in 2017.
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