Pulling up the ladder

Immigrants increasingly back the parties that would have kept them out. The latest arrivals, it seems, are keenest to pull up the ladder. Backed by the hard-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), George Simion (pictured above) topped the first round of Romania’s re-run presidential election in May 2025, taking 40.96 per cent of […] Pulling up the ladder was originally published on Emerging Europe.