round presidential vote next year. if she wins the 2017 elections, she ll take france out of the eu. frexit, likely collapsing the 23-year-old institution. where to from here? in a europe awash with uncertainty. one sernt hcertainty has risen top. farage and trump have shaken up the establishment. no telling yet if it will all boil over. perhaps it s the marine le pen vote in france that could be the most significant. italy also could have a similar impact. if one of those countries pulls out of the european union you effectively collapse the european union. it could very well happen. it would change the political map in europe. brexit. the vote of president-elect donald trump. these are signals to the european electorate that they can make things different, change the systems up. jake. all right, nic robertson, thanks so much.
the unexpected. rode a tide of populism to electoral triumph. how did it happen, and what could come next? anger at the establishment over immigration and the economy. bottled up since the financial crash of 2008. the feeling for many europe is flooded with migrants from syria and other wars, jobs tough to find, wages slow to rise, politicians tone-deaf to it all. trump used farage s brexit success to help oxygenate his own presidential campaign. combined, they could spark a chain reaction and blow the lid off europe s increasingly fragile 28-member union. in the next 12 months, 75% of the euro area voters will go to the polls. populism will be tested. austria s nor bert hoffer took
described the rise of trump as being part of a global phenomenon of nationalism, a wave of economic populism, an anti-immigration sentiment, some of it marred by bigotry, sweeping across the united states and parts of europe. voters in italy and austria will hed to the polls sunday where the frustrations could bring similar electoral change. bringing in cnn s international editor nic robertson. this trend started with the british exit from the eu in june, the brexit. reporter: you re right. it shot the political establishment in britain and energized all the people who were angry with the system, angry with the politicians. it appears to sort of have spread a message among populations in europe looking at austria, italy, france, potentially germany, that their anger and frustration can actually translate into change. first farage, and then trump did