Trump is carried out a “cultural war” against Europe and Portugal is “tempting”, says the European Council report for external relations. The road gets free when Europe if you want to defend.
Caricatus moment on the streets of New York this Monday. French President Emmanuel Macron was retained in the open because of Donald Trump’s presidential procession. Macron had to personally call the US President to ask to “release the road.”
“Guess,” says Macron to Trump, between laughs, as seen in the video being shared on social networks: “I’m waiting, on the street, because everything is closed to you.”
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The call could not have been done at a stressed time of the relationship between the homologous. When she called Trump, Macron was arriving at the French embassy, left the UN Security Council, where, when recognizing the state of Palestine, He again challenged the desire of the majestic Trump – Who happened to remembered, on the “martyr” funeral Charlie Kirk this Sunday, that “hates his opponents” and does not want them any good.
In a speech at the Assembly, Macron, the leader of diplomatic efforts so that Palestine is recognized as a state for as many countries as possible, warned that Paris has “a historical responsibility” and that “everything should be done to preserve the possibility of a solution of two states, with Israel and Palestine to live side by side in peace and security”, and announced that a French embassy in Palestine – conditioned on all the liberation of all will be opened. hostages detained by Hamas and a ceasefire in Gaza.
The “scratching” of Israel is again Trump, who rushed to criticize the recognition of Palestine as a state by 10 countries () considering him a “reward to Hamas.”
About the role of Macron in this unprecedented process, Trump already had in July that “what he [Macron] say no matter. It won’t change anything. ”And reality seems to be this: Europe is a puppet manipulated by Donald Trump.
EUROPE NO PLACE OF TRUMAN
The conclusion is not from ZAP, but from the European Council for External Relations (ECFR) and the European Cultural Foundation, which explain in a report on Tuesday, how Europe is currently comparing Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), which lived, unknowingly, in a reality made in the film The Truman Show.
“Europe is stuck in a Truman Show, and Trump’s America is in the director’s chair,” writes the main investigator of the report, Pawel Zerka.
The criticism is that Europe wastes energy to react to crises choreographed by Trump and its European allies – such as Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Giorgia Meloni in Italy or Robert I stay in Slovakia.
According to the study, Trump is carrying a “cultural war” against Europewhose strategy is to aggressively promote the political and ideological allies of the Maga Movement (Make America Great Again) and to publicly weaken the European Union on the international stage.
This “cultural war” will be in march in two plans: The ideological, about the values that shape European, and the symbolic politics, about the credibility of Europe as an autonomous actor in the international system.
Portugal “tempting”, Ventura “imitator” by Trump
Trump, the study adds, has reinforced this strategy to, for example, exclude European leaders Negotiations on the future of Ukraine, attacking traditional parties and pressing Brussels in commercial agreements. And at the same time, it promotes nationalist candidates. In this regard, Portugal And André Ventura are not forgotten.
Portugal is identified as “tempting”In the report, alongside Spain, the Netherlands and Czech Republic, for currently housing a growth in party forces of far right and populists, although still governed by pro-European values and policies.
“The right -wing populist party He arriveswhich has more than 20% of the vote in the polls and was second in the 2024 legislative elections, is seen as part of the same political wave that brought Trump back to power, ”reads Portugal’s profile in the report, which says Ventura“ openly admires Trump ”, and“ imitates ”his combative style-although he has also criticized Trump, recalls the document.
The government of Luís Montenegro is “clearly pro-European.”
“Lisbon balances its commitment to Europe to caution about Trump,” says the report on the current government.
The analysis, based on polls and investigation in the 27 Member States, maintains that there are still governments pro-European sufficiently and a strong public feeling the sufucting to allow the European Union to defend itself and write its own script. Now, like Truman, Europe should decide between the comfort and abandonment of the Trump script.
Tomás Guimarães, Zap //
