Merz’s much-discussed comments

Multiple political events in recent months, including Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s much-discussed comments about the need to achieve Europe’s independence from the US, suggest that Trump’s re-election is currently one of the main drivers of that shift. It would make sense that the emergence of an appealing, rival political model across the Atlantic should lessen the EU’s attractiveness in the eyes of far-right voters, just as mainstream voters vest more hope in the union as a bulwark against that same Trumpian alternative. Patterns in the data reinforce this impression. Voters of most far-right parties covered by ECFR’s new poll hold both a predominantly positive view of the US political system and a predominantly negative view of the EU one. Among most mainstream electorates the reverse is true สล็อต เว็บตรง