With Viktor Orban and Marine Le Pen in headliners, many European far -right officials will participate side by side on Saturday in a meeting in Madrid to defend a “180 degree turn” of the European Union, in the wake of the Trumpist wave.
« Make Europe Great Again »: it is under this watchword inspired by « Make America Great Again » From the American president Donald Trump that the leaders of the Patriotic Parliamentary Group for Europe have planned to come together in a hotel near the Madrid airport.
On the gallery will succeed, in addition to the Hungarian Prime Minister and the leader of the French National Rally (RN), the Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini (the League), the former Czech Minister Andrej Babis (Ano) or Geert Wilders, sometimes nicknamed the “Dutch Trump”whose freedom of freedom came to the top of the legislative elections last November.
German AFD, which regularly receives support marks from Elon Musk, and the Italian brothers from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the only European leader presents at the US president’s inauguration ceremony, will not be Present, part of other European parliamentary groups.
“Demonstration of strength”
According to the Spanish Radical Right Party Vox, which organizes the event, some 2,000 people will attend this meeting, summoned the day after a dinner between the leaders of patriots for Europe and Kevin Roberts, the president of the ultra -conservative thinking group American The Heritage Foundation.
The goal is to “Define the strategy to follow” by the parliamentary group, underlines Vox, who pleads for “A 180 degree turn” European policy.
For these political leaders, the Madrid summit must serve as “Demonstration of strength”observes with AFP Steven Forti, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, for whom the Patriotic Group for Europe, created a few months ago, remains a fragile coalition.
With 86 deputies out of a total of 720, including 30 from the RN, this group is the third force in the European Parliament since the European elections in June 2024.
But he is in competition in Brussels with two other far -right groups, European conservatives and reformists (80 elected officials), led by the party of Giorgia Meloni, and the Europe of sovereign nations (26 elected officials), which is among its members AFD.
In this context, Patriotes for Europe wants “Show its centrality in the competition” With these other coalitions, underlines Steven Forti.
“Occupy Brussels!” »»
For the researcher, Patriotes for Europe wishes more broadly “Take advantage of the wave caused by Trump’s victory and the shock that Trump’s measures cause the EU” To redraw “Balances” within the Union.
Considered one of Donald Trump’s closest allies in Europe, Viktor Orban has multiplied the inflamed statements in recent weeks, assuring that the extreme right was “The new dominant current” A Europe. “Our turn to occupy Brussels!” »»he launched.
A message relayed by the leader of Vox Santiago Abascal, who insists on the ideological proximity between Trumpism and European nationalist parties, in particular immigration. “A change is happening: Europe must choose”he recently pleaded.
For Steven Forti, the patriotic movement for Europe “Has a common point with Trump, it is that she wants to weaken the European Union”. But the position of the American president can also generate « tensions » Between the different components of the European far right.
Since his return to power, Donald Trump has thus intensified his attacks on Europe, between threats of increase in customs duties and annexation hints of Greenland, a Danish territory. What to interfere with the surroundings the nationalist parties within the EU.
“To love Donald Trump’s patriotism is not to say to be the vassal of the United States”thus assured mid-January Jordan Bardella, the president of the RN, who intends to keep his distance from the American president, whose outrageousness worry.
In Madrid, Marine Le Pen will therefore try to find a point of balance towards Donald Trump, according to those around him-the lepenists have also tasted the slogan « Make Europe Great Again » chosen for the summit, judged « grotesque » by the close guard of the ex-candidate in the French presidential election.
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