“Our good friend Trump, the Trump twister, has modified the world in simply a few weeks. An period has ended. In the present day, everybody sees that we’re the longer term,” crowed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, probably the most senior of the leaders on the actually within the Spanish capital.
“We’re dealing with a world tipping level,” stated France’s Marine Le Pen, whereas celebrating that, since Trump’s inauguration, European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen “has all however disappeared from the screens.”
The visitors, largely Vox’s most loyal supporters and political muscle from throughout Spain, descended on Madrid Airport’s Marriott Convention Middle to fill a 2,000-seat auditorium, armed with their Dior scarfs and Barbour jackets. They got here to take heed to leaders together with Orbán, Le Pen, the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, Italy’s Matteo Salvini, Czechia’s Andrej Babiš and Austria’s Herbert Kickl, who joined through video hyperlink as he finalizes negotiations in Vienna to turn into Austria’s new chancellor.
One after the opposite, the leaders vowed to “reconquer” Europe’s governments from Socialist, liberal and center-right forces — constructing an specific parallel to Spain’s “Reconquista,” when Christian kingdoms reconquered the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim rulers within the Center Ages.
Following his landslide victory in Austria, Kickl argued that “individuals in all places are rising towards the impositions of the EU centralists and left-wing ideologies,” and promised a brand new mannequin of European cooperation primarily based on nationwide sovereignty.
Inexperienced Deal and immigration
The leaders agreed the EU and the European Fee president are the supply of Europe’s social and financial malaise.
