So we're probably getting a coalition of three pro-European parties and one Christian-Democrat centrist. Le Pen is trailing in every poll. Germany is between CDU and the more pro-European SPD.
Where's that 'patrioting spring' at, boys?
All the eurosceptics need is one or two key victories and the EU project unravels. Brexit was the first phase, the second will be a major economy leaving the Eurozone and the most likely candidate is Italy. Once you can prove that European integration is reversible without the sky falling in then you're halfway there.
I think you're showing your hubris again Duuring. Wilders progressed to 2nd place, despite running a crap campaign, in an election where the Dutch PM had to prostitute himself to the anti-migration crowd and adopt their rhetoric. It was a victory, but hardly a moral one.
The worst outcome of 2017 for the European Union would be for Merkel to be defeated by Schultz. The EU needs a pragmatist rather than a zealot, and I should think the very election of Chancellor Schultz will drive Eastern Europe even further away. I don't think many people seriously believed 2017 would deliver PM Wilders or President Le Pen, but it will show them making big gains. The EU has never looked weaker and I should think all it would take would be another economic or political crisis to drive it over the cliff edge.