Second Trump reign could make life 'a lot harder' for EU's far-right leaders

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

96% : Le Pen's lukewarm response to Trump's second triumph - in marked contrast to her joy at his first in 2016, which she hailed even before he had officially won - reflects widespread concern over the consequences of Trump 2.0 for EU industry and jobs.
77% : "Hungary's illiberal prime minister - and the EU's disrupter-in-chief, lauded by Trump as a "very great leader, a very strong man" - was not the only figure on Europe's nationalist right to hail the president-elect's larger-than-expected victory.
73% : Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-Muslim firebrand whose Freedom party finished first in last year's elections and is the senior partner in the ruling coalition, also posted his congratulations, jubilantly urging Trump to "never stop, always keep fighting".Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, commended a "historic friendship" which "will now grow even stronger", while Alice Weidel of Alternative for Germany (AfD) hailed a defeat for "woke Hollywood", adding that Trump "is a model for us".
63% : "Trump will strengthen far-right parties not just by normalising and amplifying their ideas, but by boosting their electability."
60% : "We can have a good hope that Hungarian-American political cooperation will return to its peak form," he said: Orbán and Trump have "similar thoughts".
48% : Europe's fast-advancing far-right parties, in power in eight EU member states and knocking at the doors in more, have long seen in Trump a powerful ally who shares their populist, nation-first, conservative, Eurosceptic and immigration-hostile views.
48% : Ultimately, concluded Fieschi, Trump "is going to make the lives of Europe's far-right leaders, as Eurosceptics, a lot harder.
46% : But what can they actually expect to gain from Trump 2.0?
27% : While Europe's far-right leaders may align comfortably with Trump in their hostility to immigration and international institutions, there are also significant differences.
22% : Far-right voters in Europe are far from uncritical of Trump's brand of politics, polls suggest: a pre-election YouGov poll found, for example, that people who backed Le Pen would rather have Kamala Harris in the White House than Trump.
22% : The thing about Trump is, he's not going to let you do that.
21% : They're going to be caught between staying Eurosceptic, lining up with Trump and hurting their base - or lining up with the EU, shedding their specificity and losing voters.
20% : "The idea that Trump himself "gives a damn about building relationships with these people strikes me as very very unlikely", Fieschi added.
15% : "Trump is bad news for them.

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