"The Trump administration is waging a culture war on Europe by aggressively promoting the Maga movement's political and ideological allies on the continent and publicly humiliating the EU on the world stage, a joint report by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and European Cultural Foundation has concluded. The study argues that the US president is actively seeking to interfere in European elections, transform the transatlantic relationship toward conservative values and rally Europe's rightwing populists around the theme of free speech."
"The report likens Europe's position to that of the central character in The Truman Show, who eventually realises he is in a TV series whose only priority is to boost its ratings, and must decide whether to leave the comfort of the only reality he knows. It argues EU leaders spend too much energy reacting to crises scripted by Trump and his European allies such as Viktor Orban in Hungary, Giorgia Meloni in Italy or Robert Fico in Slovakia"
The Trump administration is promoting the MAGA movement's political and ideological allies across Europe and publicly humiliating the EU on the world stage. The administration seeks to interfere in European elections, reorient transatlantic relations toward conservative values, and rally right-wing populists around free speech. EU leaders' divisions, hesitations and flatter-appease-distract responses have encouraged such treatment. Research and polling across all 27 EU member states show sufficient pro-European governments and public sentiment for the bloc to defend its autonomy. EU leaders expend energy reacting to crises scripted by Trump and aligned European actors, including tariff threats, free speech rows, security spending and migration scares.
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