http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20160630-105753 https://verfassungsblog.de/populists-chairing-the-european-commission-and-parliament/ Populists chairing the European Commission and Parliament Komárek, Jan eng 2016-06-30 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 brexit Direct Democracy Parliamentary Sovereignty Populism Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 No, the title of this post does not refer to a dystopia to come after the next European elections in 2019. It refers to the two presidents of today – Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz. Now why can they be seen as populists in some plausible way? In my view, this is because of the way in which they see politics and the role of the “people” in it.