This essay explains the European political trends of 1999: a modest rebalance toward the right at the heart of PPE-PSE duopoly, in favor of the former; the steady decline of European communism in concert with the strengthening of a hetergenous extreme left; environmentalism articulated through post-materialist values and the prosperity of the new middle class, the development of enthno-regionalism echoing European integration, and finally the atrophy of the nationalist extreme right.