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Europe’s encouraged far -right leaders praised the effects of the US President Donald Trump’s turbulent first weeks when they explained that the EU had to imitate its guidelines to protect their future.
In a rally “Make Europe Make Europe to Treat” in Madrid on Saturday, the leaders, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and the deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini in Italy explained that Trump’s guidelines for energy, immigration and gender confirmed their recipes for the EU .
“The Trump tornado changed the world in just a few weeks,” said Orbán to a meeting of around 2,000 people. “Yesterday we were heretics, today we are mainstream.”
The rally came less than three weeks after Trump accepted an office for a second term and when Europe’s right-wing extremist parties went up the results of the EU elections last year when they achieved their best performance.
Marine Le Pen, head of the French National Party Raced National Party, said that the world has accelerated in history since Trump’s election victory. “We are facing a real turning point,” she said, adding that “the EU seems to be amazed”.
The leaders scolded the “uncontrolled” immigration and called for an end to the EU’s advance on clean energy, which they said to damage the block economy. They also attacked the policies of the “awakened” guidelines for gender and celebrated Trump’s explanation that the United States will only recognize two genders.
The Freedom Party of the Netherlands said: “We refused to bend our knee on the extremist agenda of the bright left. And we refuse to arise to the guilt of multiculturalism. “”
“People throughout Europe want us to bring spiritual health and moral clarity back.“” he added.
Santiago Abascal, leader of the Spanish far right party VOX, was hosting the event.
None of the leaders mentioned two Trump parades that are great concern in Europe: his threat of collecting tariffs to European goods in order to clear up a trade deficit that he describes as a “atrocity”, and his plan, millions of Palestinians from Gaza to drive away.
They also avoided Trump’s demand that Europe spends more for its own defense in order to reduce its trust in the United States.
Several leaders spoke positively about the Spanish “Reconest” of Muslim parts of Spain by Christian rulers in the Middle Ages, with Orbán said that it was an example of the spirit required today that Europe needs.
