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The far -right leaders of Europe welcomed the impact of the tumultuous first weeks of US President Donald Trump behind, when they said that the EU had to reproduce its policies to protect its future.
During a rally “Make Europe Great Again” in Madrid on Saturday, leaders, including Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán and Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, said that Trump’s policies on energy, immigration and sex have validated their ordinances for the EU.
“The Trump tornado has changed the world in a few weeks,” Orbán told a rally of around 2,000 people. “Yesterday we were heretics, today we are common.”
The rally occurred less than three weeks after Trump took office for a second term and the far -right parties in Europe rise at the top of the EU elections last year, when they have achieved their best performance.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Party for the Gathering of France, said that since Trump’s electoral victory, the world has seen history have been accelerating. “We are faced with a real tilting point,” she said, adding that “the EU seems amazed”.
The leaders joined “uncontrolled” immigration and called at the end of the EU push for clean energy, which, according to them, damaged the economy of the block. They also attacked “awakened” policies on sex and celebrated Trump’s statement that the United States will only recognize two sexes.
Geert Wilders of the Freedom Party of the Netherlands said: “We refuse to fold the knee to the extremist age of the left WOKE. And we refuse to go to the guilt of the trigger of multiculturalism. “”
“People from all over Europe want us to bring back mental health and moral clarity,“” He added.
Santiago Abascal, leader of the Spanish far -right party Vox, organized the event.
None of the leaders mentioned two Trump movements which are sources of great concern in Europe: his threat of imposing prices on European goods to rebalance a trade deficit which he called a “atrocity”, and his plan Expel millions of Gaza Palestinians.
They also avoided the reference to Trump’s demand that Europe spends more on its own defense to reduce its dependence on the United States.
Several leaders have spoken positively about the Spanish “reconquest” of the parties controlled by the Muslims of Spain by Christian leaders in the Middle Ages, with Orbán saying that it was an example of the spirit that Europe needs today ‘ Hui.
