Nei prossimi 100 anni – qualche monarchia rimasta in Europa? Cosa ne pensi?
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Nei prossimi 100 anni – qualche monarchia rimasta in Europa? Cosa ne pensi?
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di Mynteblomst
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A “constitutional monarchy” can still be a democracy, with just a crowned head of state.
In most (all?) of these countries, the royals today mostly have representative functions. Very different to the monarchies of 1914.
Calling Russia and Turkey a republic is a bit of an overstatement though
Yeah 100%. Example: Luxembourg. Our grand duke has no real power anymore but its still a symbol of our independence. Basically we got out of the personal union of the netherlands thanks to heredity issues. Then the grand duchy played a symbolic role in ww2.
And if you go far back, the House of Luxrmbourg-Ardennes (not be confused with current House of Weilburg-Nassau, nor with the House of Luxembourg during the 1300s) literally founded the country in 963. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried,_Count_of_the_Ardennes Not a duke, not a grand duke, but a count.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_Luxembourg#Counts_of_Luxembourg
Also feel proud to be the last remaining grand duchy haha. But basically again, were not Liechtenstein, monarch hasnt gotten any real powers.
How many that were still there in 1945 crumbled in the next 81 years?
This is a great example how propaganda works. The same picture just based off of 1918 would have looked almost identical to 2023. None of the monarchies left are actual ‘monarchies’ either, they are all constitutional ones.
Maybe Spain, I think theirs is constantly embroiled in controversy. But mine? It’ll probably stay. They’re just a national mascot, in charge of ceremonies and promoting soft power, and they are quite alright on my own judgement of their person.
Hope so
Most of the ones that are there now probably will be in 100 years. Practically all of them are stable, rich democracies, which means there’s no urgent need for big constitutional changes. Seeing how most monarchies were abolished after a revolution or a (lost) war, not much will change in the remaining ones unless some very disruptive event occurs.
I think we will have a few new monarchies by then: Zar Putin III of Russia, Prince Victor II of Hungary,…
continue the list at your pleasure.
W Gaetano Bresci
As a Dane I like our monachy. I take them as a safe guard for corruption. If a corrupt leader rigged an election, they could be stopped by the king. And I trust my monarch to not abuse his power. I think the Danish system is one of the most democratic ones in the world.
Based yellow
Doubt anything will happen here in DK, they are ceremonial at best.
If anything the newly crowned king is more popular than the old queen, according to some recent polling.
And they have already started to slowly introduce his son, as the next heir, via their own press department, where they control the messaging, unlike the queen in the past, that just did interviews with existing media. The most recent being they released some PR videos from his deployment in the military.
Personally I’m not a favor of one family being “above” everyone else, but it’s not an issue I truly care much about tbh, when they are only ceremonial.
As long as we have monarchs like we’ve had since 1905, I think the Norwegian monarchy will still be around in 100 years.
Could also very well be a return to constitutional monarchism.
More and more countries get their national unity destroyed by factionalism between political parties that once could work together for the nation and now act like the other party or parties are the their arch enemy and divide the nation.
Monarchs (if they use their role well) are a symbol of unity like no 5 year elected president (who might be heavily biased based on their party) will ever be.
I can see the Dutch one staying. There’s some controversy about the cost however we’d most likely need a president otherwise anyway. (Someone other than the minister president) Which will also incur cost. I think people love the royal family enough to where they are okay with the cost.
All these countries face an economic crisis, housing crisis, immigration crisis, energy crisis, war (Russia-Ukraine), political divide due to the Israel-Gaza war, increased budget deficit.
All due respect but if a party is prioritising getting rid of the monarchy over literally all these issues then maybe the government is really run by brain dead monkeys.
I hope monarchies will stay
Hopefully there will be more yellow
In Spain´s case I truly hope monarchy will disappear in my lifetime, it´s disgusting
Most of these losses are linked to WW2 and communism
For the UK, I think it hinges on how the public feels about Prince George when he’s grown up.
I expect we’ll get the full reign of William once he takes over.
UK will still be going strong
I can definitely see the Orange-Nassaus calling it quits at some point. It’s not that great of a job. I very much doubt that we’d get another dynasty after that. I’m ambivalent. They basically function as a kind of “head diplomat” (both domestically and abroad), and that’s not a bad role to have. A president could do that too of course, but it can’t be a political office if their goal is to be a kind of unifying figure. They also cost way too much money. I’m fine with the main family living in one extra nice house for their trouble, but the rest of the clan should just get a job.
Russia is an empire now, emperor Putin and its active petromafia
Honestly, with how stable those are, you´re more likely to have more.
I think we will have bigger issues in 100 years.
Idk about next 100, but in the next 200-500 years I think it’ll be the opposite. Monarchies will return. Instead of the royals being “chosen by god” they’ll be the richest people around who own everything and can afford to buy everyone. Or not. I hope for democracy to exist for the next millenia.
Most likely Vatican.
I truly hope we can eventually get rid of ours. Not by means of revolution or violence but just at some point coming to the conclusion it’s been enough with this silly fairytale and quietly letting the institution slip into retirement.
It’s extremely strange that people care so much about this. Democracy vs autocracy is infinitely more important, and as seen in the picture there is little correlation.
I think I’d vote to become a Republic, but reddit anti-monarchists seethe so much about something so insignificant that I kind of feel closer to a monarchists. Only the constitutional ones, of course.
Russia marked as a republic seems fun to me
oh look. nobody ever goes back to having a monarchy. how curious.
HARRRD Disagree on Russia’s label as a Republic
Now do 1918
I really hope so – but I live in Denmark, and people freaking love the monarchy for some reason.
Oh I think they will come back actually
Quoting one of The Guardian articles: “soft power is the royals’ great asset”.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/01/starmer-may-have-weaponised-the-windsors-but-soft-power-is-the-royals-great-asset
So I think that at least UK still will be a monarchy.
The monarchies in 1914 and monarchies in 2023 are very different kind of states.
Most monarchies in 1914 were dictators who fought against Democratic institutions. Those who fought the hardest have been overthrown. Those who were or turned into Constitutional Monarchies remain.
Most monarchies today (other than a few microstates) are Democracies whose main difference compared to Republics is that they have one less election to care about. They don’t really function any worse than a democratic republic does, thus it’s unlikely anything will change. When the peopel are angry, they are usually angry at the elected officials as they are the ones with legislative and executive power.
Yup. It’s not that they have a lot of power anyway. So nobody wants to topple a monarchy in their country.
I think there have been royals for hundreds of years and there will be for hundreds of years more.
Fun fact:
The French president is co-prince of Andorra.
4 years before Portugal was also still a monarchy
I hope it stays in Lux. I prefer the GD, then some sleezy politician as head of state.