Nearly half of Europeans see Donald Trump as “an enemy of Europe”, rather more rate the risk of war with Russia as high and more than two-thirds believe their country would not be able to defend itself in the event of such a war, a survey has found.
The nine-country poll for the Paris-based European affairs debate platform Le Grand Continent also found that nearly three-quarters of respondents wanted their country to stay in the EU, with almost as many saying leaving the union had harmed the UK.
Jean-Yves Dormagen, a political science professor and founder of the polling agency Cluster17, said: “Europe is not only facing growing risks, it is also undergoing a transformation of its historical, geopolitical and political environment. The overall picture [of the survey] portrays a Europe that is anxious, that is deeply aware of its vulnerabilities and that is struggling to project itself positively into the future.”
The polling found that an average of 48% of people across the nine countries see Trump as an outright foe – ranging from highs of 62% in Belgium and 57% in France to lows of 37% in Croatia and 19% in Poland.
So half of Europeans have been paying attention.
I was about to say: half? Is the other half stupid? I thought everyone in Europe had internet. Are Americans confusing Europe for Afrika again?
Uh we have our own far-right problem plus many people just don’t care about foreign politics.
There’s a difference between dealing with a far right problem, and pedophile convict scam artists trying to make Idiocracy a reality as fast as possible while at the same time doing a Hitler’s playbook.
The US isn’t just foreign politics, everything that happens there has influence over here.
This survey asked only half the Europeans? [sarcasm / hoping for 100%]
What’s wrong with the other half?
I thought it meant half of the EU saw him as a friend, but thank god that’s not quite true:
13% of the Dutch are fucking NSB’ers like their grandparents.
WTF Poland! The fucking Russians are next door and you still don’t see that Krasnov is working for them.
That must be a next level amount of cope. Hoping that the US would somehow help them
only half? Oh yeah, Fascism still a thing in Europe.
Which country is fascist run in Europe? Or what do you mean?
Italy?
True. I forgot.
Still the comment makes it sound like it’s all over Europe.
It is all over Europe with maybe some exceptions.
These parties are getting big enough to be in the government if the democratic ones do not stay away from them.
Centrist parties are flirting with the fascists topics hoping to gain a few percentage points but what actually happens is they legitimize them and the fascists gain these points
There are definitely worrying trends even in those countries where fascists are not in majority (yet). It’s not looking good. We can’t have a repeat of what happened almost a hundred years ago. Nobody among the people wants that.
Hungary and turkey with a general rise of far right parties in France, Germany and the UK. I’d say fascism is pretty popular over there.
I guess it’s in every continent these days. 😑
I read that headline as “half the Europeans are stupid” that seems about right in my experience too
We also believe he’s the enemy of all people, surely. Not just us, but his own people as well.
Indeed, time to build a formal EU Armed Forces and tell the AmeriKans to GTFO of Ramstein and NATO.
If we had started in 2016 we could maybe do that now. Remember Krim happened in 2014. If we weren’t a little slow we’d be there today.
half of Americans do too!
The other half is simply not asked for.
Half of USA, too.
He’s an enemy to humanity. But of particular menace to US and EU.
As a Canadian I feel particularly vulnerable to his rhetoric and bullshit. America has a shit ton of crazies that would just love to invade this country and kill everything that moves.
Never 51. Elbows Up, my friend.
You hate to do it, but when the other persons gloves come off Canada answers the bell.
Fellow Canadian here. We also have our fair share of fucktards who would welcome this fascist pedo with open arms.
A menace to all liberal, democratic societies that value human rights and believe in real market competition that brings down prices and forces companies to focus on the needs of their customers and workforce (so not fake American-style competition rhetoric).
Idk American geopolitical rivals are probably laughing their asses off looking at him.
Almost the same amount for Americans lol
People ain’t that different. Ironically, the great effectiveness of the same racist rhetoric in different cultures proves that.
I am amazed that someone think (pardon, believe because …) that Trump is friend to anybody.
The opposite of “enemy” is not “friend”.
True.
Sorry, I mean the complement, just to be clear.
I mean, it’s not like he keeps it a secret.
There are people who did not get how these tariffs are bad. Imagine the stupidity.
