"When it comes to the Americans, they do what they want, "They can mock, but we are not like this. These are our values. This is who we are .When they [Trump supporters] say we are losing our identities, they shouldn't forget that Trump, basically, is from German descent,"
"We don't the need US to water down our policy documents,"
"We have a very worrying development in the European Parliament, with the far right becoming very powerful, "So if there has been pressure and and watering down [of] the language, it's more related to pressure within Europe."
The EU launched an Anti-Racism Strategy for 2026–2030 as a continuation of policy momentum that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests. The Trump administration's April 2025 rollback of US DEI policies prompted corporate and academic reversals of anti-discrimination commitments. Critics argue the new EU strategy is significantly watered down and attribute dilution primarily to growing far-right power within the European Parliament rather than external US influence. EU defenders frame the strategy as reflecting European values and reject claims that US actions dictated policy changes.
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