Rightwing leaders such as Meloni and Orb\u00e1n set themselves up as Trump whisperers \u2013 but they only want to preserve their own interests <\/p>\n
A far-right wind is blowing across the Atlantic. While the rise of the populist right in Europe predated Donald Trump\u2019s re-election, far-right parties, leaders and governments across Europe are being bolstered by his imminent return to power, and by Elon Musk\u2019s rising political star. There is some hope that Trump\u2019s presidency could have a unifying effect on Europe \u2013 and on issues such as defence policy, I believe it might.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s apparent disregard for international law, sovereign borders and the US\u2019s Nato allies with his ludicrous threat, even before his second term begins, to annex Greenland by force<\/a>, drew a swift and unified reaction from France, Germany and Spain, whose leaders made it clear that they are, as you would expect, appalled and standing with Denmark. Germany\u2019s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said Trump\u2019s remarks had triggered \u201cincomprehension\u201d among European leaders.<\/p>\n Nathalie Tocci is a Guardian Europe columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rightwing leaders such as Meloni and Orb\u00e1n set themselves up as Trump whisperers \u2013 but they only want to preserve their own interests A far-right wind is blowing across the Atlantic. While the rise of the populist right in Europe predated Donald Trump\u2019s re-election, far-right parties, leaders and governments across Europe are being bolstered by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}