Donald Trump is the 47th President of the United States. Politicians in European countries such as Germany, France, Spain are making statements that a strong stance should be taken unity against the United States.

From Germany, the message “We are Strong”

German Chancellor Olaf Sholz said, “Today President Trump takes office. Congratulations. The US is our closest ally and a good transatlantic relationship is always the goal of our politics” by using the phrase “we are a strong community as the European Union (EU) with 27 members and more than 400 million people”, he is both sending a message of “we are strong” and using polite language so as not to anger Trump…

Fredrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the main opposition in Germany, called on Europeans to act with self-confidence and unity against Trump.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said that the EU and France will be crushed if they do nothing in the face of Trump’s policies. Bayrou stated that together with Trump, the United States has decided to carry out “dominant policies” by taking control of all research, as well as dollar and industrial policy, and attracting everyone’s investments to the United States. Bayrou said: “If we don’t do something, we will be put under pressure, we will be crushed, we will be ignored. This decision depends on us as French and Europeans because it is impossible to do this without the EU.

The fear of “What will we do if the US withdraws from the Mediterranean”!

French President Emmanuel Macron invited Europe to “wake up” and said that more spending on defence is needed to reduce its dependence on the US. Macron said, “What will we do in Europe if our American ally withdraws warships in the Mediterranean tomorrow? What if they pull their jets from the Atlantic to the Pacific?”. The European states that do not have a serious army are in a state of great fear and anxiety.

Elon Musk’s Nazi salute startled Europe

Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz said that Trump’s closest man Elon Musk stopped using the social media platform X in response to the Nazi salute. She said, “At Trump’s swearing-in ceremony, we witnesses the whole world imitating Musk’s Nazi salute.” The deputy prime minister’s reaction to the US is to get out of X!

Spanish Prime Minister calls for an “uprising”

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez states that everyone should rise up in Europe to defend democracy against the economic, technological, and media power that he claims “surrounds” Trump. Sanchez criticised Trump, who began his term by taking the oath of office, and Elon Musk, who gave him the greatest support during the elections, without naming names. Noting that history shows that technologies alone do not create prosperity, Sanchez said: “They tend to strengthen the status quo, give more power to the powerful and make the rich richer. This threat is quite serious,........

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