“Populism promises everything. It promises it now, and it promises it for everyone. Populism proposes simple solutions to complex problems. The problems we have been facing for years now, during what we already call a „permacrisis”, are certainly not simple.
Therefore, our responses must be complex. Yes, it is also our task, as communicators and as representatives of the European Union, but also the task of national authorities, to know how to communicate these complex problems to the people.
Populism is not part of the solution, because populist leaders sprout from crises, they feed on crises and then the interest is only to maintain this crisis situation.”