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Europe’s encouraged, right -wing leaders of Europe praised the influence of US President Donald Trump’s first shocked weeks after they declared that the EU should repeat its policies to protect its future.
At a rally “Make Europe Big Again” in Madrid on Saturday, leaders including Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán and Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini stated that Trump’s energy, immigration and gender policies proved their EU recipes.
“Tornado Trump has changed the world in just a few weeks,” Orbán told a meeting of about 2,000 people. “Yesterday we were heretical, today we are in the main stream.”
The rally came less than three weeks after Trump took office for a second term and while Europe’s far-right parties were riding high in EU elections last year, when they achieved their best performance ever.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the France’s rassemblement National Party, said that since the victory of Trump’s elections the world was seeing history to be accelerated. “We’re facing a real point,” she said, adding that “the EU seems to be amazed.”
The leaders went against the “uncontrolled” immigration and called on the end of the EU push for pure energy, which they said was damaging the block economy. They also attacked “smart” gender policies and celebrated Trump’s statement that the US would only recognize two sexes.
Geert Wilders of the Netherlands Freedom Party said: “We refuse to bow our knee on the extremist agenda of the left. And we refuse to surrender to guilt of multiculturalism”
“People throughout Europe want us to restore arrogance and moral clarity,“ he added.
Santiago Abascal, leader of the Spanish Right Party Vox, waited for the incident.
None of the leaders mentioned two Trump movements that are major disturbing resources in Europe: his threat to impose fees for European goods to reprint a trade deficit he has called a “cruelty”, and his plan to expelled millions of Palestinians from Gaza.
They also avoided the reference to Trump’s request for Europe to spend more on its protection to reduce its confidence in the US
Some leaders spoke positively about the Spanish “reconciliation” of parts controlled by Spain’s Muslims by Christian rulers in the Middle Ages, with Orbán saying it was an example of the soul that needed today.
