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.
I thought it meant half of the EU saw him as a friend, but thank god that’s not quite true:
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
13% of the Dutch are fucking NSB’ers like their grandparents.
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.
What’s wrong with the other half?
only half? Oh yeah, Fascism still a thing in Europe.
Which country is fascist run in Europe? Or what do you mean?
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. 😑
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.
True, and I see him as an enemy of America too.
I am amazed that someone think (pardon, believe because …) that Trump is friend to anybody.
The opposite of “enemy” is not “friend”.
Sorry, I mean the complement, just to be clear.
True.
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.
So like the same 50% opposition as in the US. This kind of seems like we’re all living under the same propaganda and international political machines.
Living with the same misinformation also. People here in EU spew the same B’s talking points as in the US
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.
Lol our far right praises everything Trumpler does. And there are also pedo suspicions about some members of the family running the far-right party in my country.
They haven’t been able to get enough power to go full Hitler, but all they really need is a few good crises. They want to get rid of all LGBT and POC too. Funnily enough they don’t want to ruin the welfare state though, unlike the liberals.
So half of Europeans are fucking idiots?
I thought that too, but thankfully not quite:
Didnt read the article (data walled) but from the excerpt, it could’ve been a choice between trump and Putin. I can’t say without seeing the numbers, but it’s possible.
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.
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.
We also believe he’s the enemy of all people, surely. Not just us, but his own people as well.
This survey asked only half the Europeans? [sarcasm / hoping for 100%]
He’s the enemy of everywhere except Russia.
