Most consider him hostile and many interpret his foreign policy as “recolonization” after the actions in Venezuela and threats to take Greenland — an “act of war” for 81% of respondents from the seven countries.
The majority of citizens surveyed in seven European Union (EU) countries consider the North American President an “enemy of Europe”, according to a survey published this Friday by the French geopolitics magazine.
Of those surveyed, 51% classify Donald Trump as hostile “enemy of europe”and 44% as dictatorwhile only 8% consider him a “friend of Europe”, according to the study by the Cluster17 institute. Another 39% answered “neither one thing nor the other” and 2% did not know how to answer, according to the news agency France-Presse (AFP).
For 64% of respondents, American foreign policy is defined by “recolonization” and “predation”.
After Trump’s attitude towards , 73% of Europeans now believe that the European Union should rely exclusively on itself to defend its independence: 81% believe that a military operation in Greenland would constitute “an act of war against Europe”, and 63% support sending troops to the island in a defensive posture. Also 63% consider the kidnapping of Maduro an illegal act that violates the sovereignty of a sovereign state.
The survey was carried out between January 13 and 19 among 7,498 people in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark and Poland, at a time marked by Trump’s statements about his intention to acquire Greenland.
“Europe seems lost in trying to convince the US president to change. But he won’t change. President Trump loves who he is. And he says he loves Europe, but he won’t listen to this Europe.”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned this Thursday.
