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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right

Leaders Alexander Stubb, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Friedrich Merz, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron and Giorgia Meloni stand in a row in front of national flags
Donald Trump standing with European leaders in August. Photograph: Alexander Drago/Reuters

Donald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure” within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration, arguing in a policy document that the US must “cultivate resistance” within the continent to “Europe’s current trajectory”.

Billed as “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”, the US National Security Strategy makes explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties.

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