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Europe’s brave right-wing leaders praised the impact of the turbulent previous weeks of U.S. President Donald Trump as they announced that the EU must replicate his policies to safeguard its future.
At the rally “Make Europe Great Again” in Madrid on Saturday, leaders including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced that Trump’s policies on energy, immigration and gender prove their prescription for the EU.
“The Trump tornado has changed the world in just a few weeks,” Albarn told a gathering of about 2,000 people. “We were pagans yesterday, and today we were mainstream.”
The rally was less than three weeks after Trump took office as Europe’s far-right parties achieved their best performance last year.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French Provisional National Party, said that since the Trump election, the world has accelerated history. “We are facing a real turning point,” she said, adding: “The EU seems stupid”.
Leaders oppose “uncontrolled” immigration and call for an end to the EU’s push for clean energy, which they say has hurt the group’s economy. They also attacked the “awake” policy on gender and celebrated Trump’s announcement that the United States would recognize only two genders.
Geert Wilders of the Dutch Liberal Party said: “We refuse to bend our knees to the waking extremist agenda. We refuse to succumb to the guilt of multiculturalism. ”
“People across Europe want us to bring back sanity and moral clarity,transparent He added.
Santiago Abascal, the leader of the Spanish far right party Vox, hosted the event.
No leader mentioned two Trump moves, which are a source of major concerns in Europe: He threatened to impose tariffs on European goods to rebalance what he called “raucous” trade deficits, and his It is planned to expel millions of Palestinians from Gadgarya.
They also avoided mentioning Trump’s demand that Europe spends more on its own defense to reduce its dependence on the United States.
Several leaders actively spoke about the “reconquest” of Spain controlled by the medieval Christian ruler, Muslim, and Alban said it was an example needed in Europe today.
