Heritage Foundation openly calls for end of European Union
Article translation to English:
It is "in the interest of the United States and Europe" that the European Union be dissolved". That is what Nile Gardiner, director of the European branch of the Heritage Foundation, says to Nieuwsuur. That conservative think tank is known as the main shaper of the policies of US President Donald Trump's second term.
The Trump administration supports "movements and political leaders in Europe" who are "pro-American and believe that Europe should take a different direction," Gardiner says. This concerns leaders of Italy, Poland and Hungary, who see the conservative thinker as "important allies."
In February, Vice President J.D. Already sharply criticized Europe. This summer , further indications came to light that the U.S. is out on a change of power.
According to the new U.S. security strategy, which was published this month, Europe is in danger of "losing its civilization through immigration and the disappearance of national identities." The document praises nationalist parties "who want to preserve the individual character and history of European countries" and supports patriotic parties in their struggle to dismantle the EU from within.
In response, European Commissioner for Human Rights called on Michael O'Flaherty to take courage against US criticism of the EU. European heads of government reacted remarkably little. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was fierce and called the plan "unacceptable and unacceptable."
The chairman of the committee in the European Parliament that maintains contact with the US called the security strategy "a frontal attack on the EU." The words of the White House, according to him, amount to interference in European elections. 'Warning for Europe'
From right-wing parties, there is also a positive reaction to the American policy paper. Member of the European Parliament Mieke Andriese (PVV) calls it a "clear strategic warning for Europe" this week. "Mass immigration threatens our European identity."
Member of the European Parliament Sander Smit (BBB), a member of a committee for strengthening European democracy, can also agree with parts of the American criticism. "BBB does not support the abolition of the EU, but believes that the EU urgently needs internal reforms because of a democratic deficit, diminishing legitimacy and too much bureaucracy," he tells Nieuwsuur. Read his entire response here.
Nile Gardiner is now going a step further with his plea for the abolition of the EU. "I don't see any future scenario where Europe is better off with the survival of the European Union than without."
There are "deep-rooted concerns in the US capital Washington about what is seen as the suppression of freedom of expression within the European Union," says Gardiner. The EU would have too much power over the member states.
The conservative thinker points, among other things, to the fines that the European Commission handed out to the social medium X, owned by tech billionaire and ex-Trump adviser Elon Musk. The fines totalled 120 million euros and were imposed for violations of an internet law. With these types of "attacks on U.S. tech companies," the EU would undermine US security.
Moreover, the Union would not listen to the voice of the people and restrict the power of right-wing radical parties such as the AfD. And the EU would open the gates for mass migration. Gardiner fears the increasing influence of Islam. "All this makes the EU doomed." 'Europe reacts too weakly'
According to the leading Irish researcher Judy Dempsey (Carnegie Institute), the European Union is responding too weakly and too slowly to the Trump administration's lashing out. "The Europeans don't look at themselves, but just say: don't you dare criticize our democracy."
Dempsey, who is researching international relations, argues that the EU does not use its large internal market sufficiently as a geopolitical instrument. "The EU is not confident and knows how to sell itself poorly."
Trump is responding to this by politically influencing and dividing Europe, the researcher says. "The idea that a divided EU would be in US favour is at odds with the transatlantic view that has been in place since 1945."
"The weakness of Europeans is that they do not confront far-right populist parties, whether in France, the Netherlands, Germany or Italy."
According to Gardiner, the plan to turn the EU into a defense force clashes with US interests. "This undermines the NATO alliance, while it pulls military resources away," he says. "NATO will hopefully exist for centuries to come, but the EU will eventually disappear."
The U.S. under Trump supports right-wing nationalist parties in Europe that "insist on more sovereignty and self-determination," Gardiner says. He mentions, among others, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish President Karol Nawrocki and the party president of France's Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella. Gardiner emphasizes that it is about political support; there would be no question of financial aid. Discussion within the Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is an independent right-wing conservative think tank in Washington. They developed 'Project 2025', policy proposals that the government is now implementing. Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, the European branch of The Heritage Foundation.
The extreme course that the Heritage Foundation has been pursuing since this year leads to ideological discussions within the institute: in recent weeks, some fifteen employees left the institute. Disagreements included stopping support for Ukraine and the controversial tariff policy that President Trump is pursuing. Heritage director Kevin Roberts also initially refused to condemn statements by the far-right, anti-Semitic influencer Nick Fuentes.
Discussions on Reddit about the Heritage Foundation with one saying that the think tank was founded by former Nazis or at least has remote connections to Nazis.
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2595747-trump-denktank-pleit-openlijk-voor-einde-europese-unieOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
The Heritage Foundation is a Terrorist Organisation
Obligatory always has been
Well anything the Heritage Foundation is against is clearly a good idea, so Europe should be proud that on the whole they're doing a good job. Keep pissing off the Heritage Foundation to keep winning.
Just more projection at this point. The Heritage foundation captured US federal government needs to be disbanded, and for my money not reformed. That sort of concentrated power is always corrupted and abuses.
Hierarchical power structures in general
But yes IMO the "reforms" they've been responsible for have completely destroyed any fascismile of democracy in the US. It is time to look to our communities and create horizontal structures to serve our needs.
The Heritage Foundation is a neo-Nazi terrorist organisation and it needs to be dismantled.
"we're against pineapple on pizza"- The heritage foundation just wanting to ruin someone's day. (Lol. I lie. They're not that clever.)
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aprovesordered this message.Unironically: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1997279325876367719 (the biggest asshole in the world says that it's in Europe best interest to disband and become many small states with no international influence, and Medvedev approves the message
I dont think he is the biggest asshole (Peter Thiel, Putin, and Trump are bigger). I would say however that he is leading the pack for the loudest asshole.
This goes higher on the chain than Putin
And I openly call for an end of the heritage foundation. See how easy that is to say?
Cool. How many oil billionaires do you have amplifying your messaging? Because if it's less than two I'm afraid your opinion matters less than Gardiners.
Despite its value, it’s the only opinion I gots.
Ima git right beside in you the trenches & behind you when U need a lift. We could be brothers from different mothers or sisters from different misters. It doesn’t matter. I like, support & fully endorse this commenter’s comment. Comment more please.
The EU most be doing something right if nazis want it to be dissolved.
If the EU is dissolved, it will result in the same kind of warfare and political tension that dominated Europe prior to World War 2. Territorial claims and tensions that ceased to exist after WW2 could easily resurface again and it would make the continent a lot more vulnerable to manipulation and aggression by countries like Russia and China.
The American right is acting in a way that is identical if they were fully compromised and acting as Russian agents. Promoting the dissolution of the EU only benefits Russia.
It is in the interest of the United States and Europe that the Heritage Foundation be dissolved.
In a vat of acid
no a vat of acidic eels
With free-kin la-zer beems on their heads!
The heritage foundation is a criminal organization
Naw, crime is now legal in the us of a. *
Interestingly Europe is about the call for the end of Trump seeing how the stew with the proof of him being a pedophile can’t be covered up by his own justice department any longer.
More than a pedophile, an actual trafficker.
PS: and ordering the killings of people who tried to expose him.
Clan I get a source for that last thing, haven’t seen that yet
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00020517.pdf
and this one doesnt help either:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00038986.pdf
As you read more, it is always the worst stuff you can imagine and they just sat on it for decades. It's like "american psycho"+"eyes wide shut"+"taxi driver".
PS: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00025010.pdf
Both are gone.
Try using a VPN, I can still see them.
Wait, do you think they are just blocking people in the states?
That seems like a lot more trouble than deleting them (and sort of pointless).
I can definitely see them. Outside the states and on a VPN.
Horrifying to read....
I think they might be referring to the veteran democrats who made a video reminding that the soldiers auth is to the constitution not the president.
I thought they were about to hand the UK, France, Germany, and Sweden to fascist parties over the next three years
Yeah this is just online Euros coping.
That continent has every bit as much of a fascist problem as the US does, the EU is the only thing preventing it from getting worse and AfD etc knows it
It's not quite that bad yet, fortunately.
Thing is, every time a fascist party rises to power in the EU they fuck it up spectacularly and lose the next elections. So far Meloni in Italy is the only exception, the rest have been quite pathetic.
Sweden's party is bad, but not AfD-bad. They are also already in the coalition as a supporting party, but not actually in the government. Though I dread the day they will be in the government.
Right now though, polls point to a center-left coalition next year...
given how echo chambers brainwash a rejection of new information, especially from online communication
i say knock on doors and talk to people in the street/on the countryside in person. i'll tell you and everyone reading to make that two people,
i ask everyone reading to talk politics to two people not obviously voting red-green before elections
Heritage Foundation is a terror organization
Amen! 🙌
Fuck Heritage foundation. Me and all me EU homies hate heritage foundation. The EU is the best thing that has happened to colonial and war-ravaged European continent that's just peacefully existing and defending itself right now.
Spot on! I'm an EU citizen too. I read the UK may make an attempt to return.
imo, inevitably it will. Brexit has been a disaster that is finally being acknowledged. just need to get a wrangle on the grifters and propaganda.
Same
Defending itself? From what? Cows?
Are you living in a cave? There is literally an invasion/war happening in Europe.
WOW there's literally FIVE countries being attacked in the Middle East!
And your little skirmish in "Europe", would it be between two non-European countries that are both populated by exactly the same people?
You clearly don't even know the difference between EU and Europe.
How is the fact that there are wars happening in Middle East makes what I said irrelevant or false? I'm not sure why you even said that. Like WOW there's literally wars happening in Asia - does not make wars in Middle East irrelevant.
Bro when will you acknowledge that EU is another imperialist piece of shit that needs to be dismantled? Just the same shit as the US empire. Fuck thr European Union imperialism.
Fuck You! Because of the existence of the EU I get to do trade more easily and support my family and have an existence on this land! Because of EU regulations and pressures my country is less corrupt! Because of EU funds I was able to actually start my business! Without the EU I couldn't enjoy the life I have today!
One of EUs biggest members left the EU a few years ago by democratic means. How is that imperialist?
And they aren't even better for it... Aren't they looking to come back or something?
Better than pretty much every other big group right now. Like what are the alternatives? Russia's trying to take over the world, China's trying to... take over the world a bit more subtly, America... oh right yeah they're trying that too while somehow screwing it up beyond belief. Obviously this is simplified but I'm probably wasting my time here cause .ml
The Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization.
The Heritage Foundation and people like Peter Thiel will leverage AI bots and social media news filtering to manipulate European opinions just like they're doing in the United States right now. Europe needs to reject American social media and American AI companies in order to protect their own people.
That is absolutely correct, but unfortunately very unlikely, because many of our politicians are either incredibly incompetent or simply corrupt. This is for example evident in the fact that they even want to introduce Palantir, as was recently the case in Germany, where the state of Baden-Württemberg decided to use the US mass surveillance software "Gotham" in a completely unlawful manner and against the will of the population (its use is also already planned at the federal level).
So unfortunately, I have little hope here, but I will still try to do my part.
"conservative think tank" = opinion disregarded
Nazi Think Tank
Fascist think tank that used to be conservative.
Conservative pedo tank
Why did you write conservative twice?
Geriatric Oligarchical Pedophiles.
I openly call for the end of the Heritage Foundation. Regards, an EU citizen.
Heritage Foundation should be dissolved, preferably in some kind of highly caustic solution!
The EUs respond should be “fuck off.”
Declare them terrorist and ban their members from travelling to Europe would be a start. Unfortunately the EU is soft most of the time on these issues. See Russia carrying spying and sending drone and even jet fighters without the slightest consequence.
Everything the heritage foundation wants will lead to war
Civil War in the US and World War everywhere else
The are the worst people that currently exist, and that list includes Vladimir Putin
They are worse
Ding ding ding
And here we have the real reason. The EU won't allow the US tech companies to fuck over its citizens for moneys
And we were all just discussing how those fines were an insignificant, barely noticable scratch upon their obscene wealth that doesn't go nearly far enough.
The threat of consequences by tiny little fines is enough to make a propaganda push to alter the world map and ignite chaos. Like imagine pushing a state to secede from the Union because you're feeling bitchy over paying a parking ticket.
These people have rejected their humanity and become raging sociopathic misanthropes that any civilized society would rightly banish into the cold of winter to face the wolves.
The Heritage Foundation has no business telling other countries what to do
They have no business telling the US what to do either. Sadly that's never stopped them.
I openly call the hunting season of Heritage Foundation employees open!
Screw oversight. I hope there is a no bag limit. We don’t need any conservation tips on this front.
Heritage Foundation will be horrified, but will also approve your advocacy of deregulation.
Kind of a conundrum of views to remain steadfast, eh? Glad I never took one of their blood oaths to. I’m sorry what was I saying?
Maybe I missed it, but I fail to see how dissolving the EU would be in the interest of Europe, by their logic?
I think I see where you fucked up…
They will then enjoy the chirproactic benefits of a Russian boot on their collective neck.
Because "muh EU holding citizens of member states as hostages to WOKE"
Why the hell would they care about Europe's interest?? There's only one country that matters. One above all. One first, and any true patriot should recognize it: it's Russ… USA! USA!! (Sorry, I slipped! Do you think anyone noticed??)
America's 1% doesn't like how Europe's bottom 99% seem to average better than America's bottom 99%—it's getting many Americans in America's bottom 99% to think that their country should be more like a European country.
"The misery is the point!"
You have to look at it through the lens of American exceptionalism.
Why does that sound like something putin would say? And for "some reason" - musk too?
Both Putin and Trump (through his ideologists) are diametrically opposed to European liberalism
The people need to make the heritage foundation disappear.
Forever.
The United States is an aggressive fascist state bent on control.
It is in the interest of Europe and the rest of the world that the American Union be dissolved.
Only if the US breaks up too.
Don't forget Russia and China. Break up ALL the empires
Alliances and Empires are not the same thing, my dude
I openly call for the end of the United States of America. It's been an evil empire pretty much since it's founding but ever since WWII ended, it went off a cliff
It's a dictatorship with nukes.
End it, end it now.
Long live the European Union!
The USA is as imperialist as your shithole European Union. Fuck european imperialism
Patriotic Americans call for end of Heritage Foundation.
They are a Domestic Terror Organization, and should be abolished, and prohibited, and it's members prosecuted.
If the system worked, yeah, we could do it that way.
Heritage foundation. What of bunch of inbred idiots. I'm sure they thought it was fun knocking up their mothers just like their daddy brother did for them.
I openly call for the Heritage Foundation to go fuck itself!
Heritage Foundation should be declared a Terrorist Organization and prosecuted.
Let the EU openly call for the dissolution of the HF
I'm always happy to see shit like this to some degree as it's a clear indicator that the thing these idiots are railing against is good and should be fought for.
It's also hilarious that Trump can't even control the country he's purported to lead, and yet he thinks he can fuck with democracy in Europe on the side.
Democracy is very fickle, especially since all it takes for democracy to fail is a minority of people to allow fascism to take hold.
Trump's lack of ability to control the US doesn't mean he can't bring instability to the EU. Quite the opposite. If he can bring doubt into the coalition, then it will become easier for him to get what he wants, which is a smaller voting bloc.
A democracy that is actually organized according to democratic principles and with a strong dual-power/anti-power system baked into it would do just fine against fascist creep.
The US is no democracy and never really has been. Majority rule is the single worst implementation of democracy you could pick.
this is just cancer trying to do its job and spread. Should be cauterized.
These guys don’t want any international or domestic solidarity at all. Like, even if they get everything they supposedly want, they keep going after the Christian fundamentalists that don’t subscribe to their particular brand. They’ll fractionate American society until it’s literally just an orgy of slaughter like “The Purge”.
Uh yeah thats literally what they want
Do you not live near rednecks...?
According to the Epstein files, orgy and slaughter is unironically their idea of idyllic society.
Like reavers, but worse.
Heritage foundation can suck my entire dick how about that?
Most of them would love to im sure
Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom has GOT to be an oxymoron...
...Freedom to Attack Unions.
I'd prefer to see the USA dissolved.
I'd rather see it finally fixed to be a fully functioning democracy. The party duopoly was always risky. A PR system with many parties is far more stable. Make it so new parties can come and go. So there is always real choice. It helps keep the nutters from getting absolute power. The UK could fall to nutters next election because of our insane FPTP system.
a reply I made ITT.
Europe has like what, 27 countries? US has like 52. One has states who joined willingly, the other is not Europe. Go figure which one is more likely to be dissolved.
Yeah, with vastly diverse cultures, just look at North and South Dakota.
And where'd you get 52 from?
Dunno, I know there are 50 stars, but I heard two more joined.
DC and PR?
They are already doing a good job dismantling the US.
It's literally the Illuminati.
though not very luminous.
America has aligned with Russia, and by extension China, North Korea, and even Iran, against it's old NATO allies Canada, Europe, and Japan and South Korea. The rest of NATO must respond or the aligned democracies will be separated and destroyed one by one.
There is no "rest of NATO". The US runs NATO.
That is not true. NATO is a multilateral agreement. There is currently a bill in both the US House and Senate which if passed and signed into law would remove the US from NATO. But if that were to happen, NATO would continue with the remaining signatories.
Full command of NATO lies with the US and the bill is nothing more than a sham which will never pass.
From your mouth to God's ears.
NATO is both a protection agreement and a tool to bind its members to somel level of US control. A new alliance is needed without the US. It should start with Europe (not just the EU, it should include the UK and non-EU countries) and it could then attract Canada, Australia, Japan, … But that requires members to get their shit together and rebuild their respective armies. And all the countries that bought F35 just bound themselves to the US for decades again. So it looks really bad right now.
Show me on the doll where a US departure from NATO would require renegotiation between other multilateral parties:
https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/official-texts-and-resources/official-texts/1949/04/04/the-north-atlantic-treaty
Europa should consider pulling the plug on their failed America's colonies project. Britain, Spain, and France have let the hole run far past it's use-by date
Whenever I hear a MAGA fucknut yapping about how bad the EU, especially as a threat to culture, I tell them to dissolve the USA and the EU was 90 years too late.
Yeah, US was able to be formed only after eradicating entire cultures!
I hope all the members of this terrorist organization are denied visas to go to any EU country
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/project-2025-heritage-foundation-hack
Applicants to a heritage foundation hiring pool for the new trump admin frequently cited as inspiration: nazi Carl Schmitt, El Salvador's Bukele, white supremacist Jared Taylor, and the UK's Neema Parvini among others. Some of these applicants have gone on to receive positions in the trump admin. They are literally drawing from the poisonous well of nazi-ism and attempting to re-export it to the EU. Don't carry that water.
Maybe the USA should be dissolved.
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I strongly oppose this and think it's a bad idea because then you'll be like Ukraine and your neighbors like Russia. Instead we must win big in all 50 states. Otherwise you'll screw over tens if not hundreds of millions of people who will be forced to live in a a far-right extremist country. Let's instead take back our country in all 50 states.
Another reason why this is a bad idea is because blue states send a lot of good Democrats to congress. Taking that away means certain Republican domination in congress.
Maybe Ukraine was foolish enough to give up its nukes. Also California and other Pacific states might want to leave.
I don't see the Democrats winning big—though we will know in 10¼ months.
It's apparently what many Americans want.
It's becoming an American tradition: bring in a shitty Republican about every 20 years. Today it's Trump. Before it was Dubya. Before him was Reagan, and before him was Nixon.
wp:2024 United States House of Representatives elections#Per state
wp:List of current United States senators#List of senators
New England has 12 senators. Only 1 is GOP (Cole), 2 are independent, including Bernie, and 9 are Democats including GOP bête noire Warren.
wp:List of current United States governors
While 2 of the 6 governors are GOP, the Vermont one said he voted for Biden and harris in 2020 and 2024.
The Heritage Foundation is seditious and traitorous
As an American:
Are GIGN or KSK or GROM exceedingly busy at the moment?
If not, I politely suggest that ya'll "politely suggest" that the Heritage Foundation should be abolished.
Europe is still trying to cope with the fact that the US may no longer be the long standing ally it once was.
... and my politely suggested "polite suggestion" could help swing that balance back into sanity.
Assuming it is done "politely" enough.
I think most EU members have looked at the UK over the last few years and gone “know what? i think we’ll stay”
i, on behalf of most americans, would like to call for the shutdown of heritage foundation, and also for all funding to that organization to be redirected to the democratic socialists of america. merry holidays, everyone! seriously.
Yes. And
2 + 3rd generation after WW2 and Hitler, no one remembers.
Dude most people are not able to divide one billion by a thousand. Otherwise they'd see that we could have 1000 millionaires for each billionaire.
You expect string recall?
I would love to hear a single policy from the heritage foundation that's actually a good idea.
I wonder what people openly call for with respect to the Heritage Foundation.
I think thats just every Democrat press release
Breaking the law in another country and having a fine assessed against you is somehow an attack on the US? Stop breaking the law, assholes!
But the movie said we're the world police!
Funny, because in recent years I thought I had heard the opposite from administrations like this (Trump in his first term: we won't tell you what to do and you won't tell us what to do), yet here we are.
If US can sanction EU regulators, EU should be able to sanction Heritage Foundation members over that.
If one side starts to be overtly hostile, then the other should reciprocate
the only thing i want from ol' saint nick is to ban the heritage foundation 'cause trump is a dick
Saying the quiet part aloud, just like Donald.
sure thing boss tweed anything you say
Comedy gold.
In other breaking news...they also want Saturn's' rings moved to Jupiter because they control both the EU and the planets. Delusions of Grand Jury.
Generous to call Orange Donnie a conservative "thinker". He doesn't give a rats ass about any coherent strategy other than "own the libs" and "how does this make me money"
Conservatism, historically, has always been what someone does instead of thinking.
I didn't realiza that they are a part of the EU.
Of course. Europe belongs to Putin. North and South America are Trump's by Divine Right. Hail the New Order. /s
So..."Brexit", but now for everyone else? These people are so unbelievably disingenuous.
better, more sensical translation, by DeepL.com, I'm doing it piece by piece, with a couple of comments thrown-in:
It is “in the interests of the United States and Europe” that the European Union be dissolved. That is what Nile Gardiner, director of the European branch of the Heritage Foundation, told Nieuwsuur. This conservative think tank is known as the main architect of US President Donald Trump's second-term policy.
( converting countries to oligarchy, then.. https://www.project2025.observer/en which may no-longer be getting updated, for whatever reason, & https://www.factcheck.org/2024/09/a-guide-to-project-2025/ gives a little taste of the ideology-policy )
The Trump administration supports “movements and political leaders in Europe” who are “pro-American and believe that Europe must take a different direction,” Gardiner said. These include leaders from Italy, Poland, and Hungary, whom the conservative thinker sees as “important allies.”
In February, Vice President J.D. Vance already voiced sharp criticism of Europe. This summer, further indications emerged that the US is seeking a change of power.
( political-interference in national politics? isn't that illegal? )
I cannot see any future scenario in which Europe would be better off with the European Union than without it.
Nile Gardiner
According to the new US security strategy, published this month, Europe is in danger of “losing its civilization through immigration and the erosion of national identities.” The document praises nationalist parties “that seek to preserve the individual character and history of European countries” and supports patriotic parties in their struggle to dismantle the EU from within.
( notice that a strengthening EU-identity is unthinkable to these agents )
In response, European Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O'Flaherty called for courage in the face of US criticism of the EU. European government leaders responded with remarkable silence. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was fierce, calling the plan “unacceptable and inadmissible.”
( silence is accommodation, among humankind.. dangerous method to use )
The chair of the European Parliament committee that maintains contact with the US called the security strategy “a frontal attack on the EU.” According to him, the White House's words amount to interference in European elections.
( THAT one gets it. )
'Warning for Europe'
Right-wing parties have also responded positively to the American policy document. MEP Mieke Andriese (PVV) called it a “clear strategic warning for Europe” this week. “Mass immigration threatens our European identity.”
( sigh half true: immigration isn't handled correctly: you have to have people sign their agreement that the country outranks their-religion, & that they're NOT going to try highjacking the country for their religion, something like that, & then you've got leverage to deport the country-highjackers )
MEP Sander Smit (BBB), member of a committee for strengthening European democracy ( I think that is this link: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/nl/euds/home/highlights ), also agrees with parts of the American criticism. “BBB does not support abolishing the EU, but believes that the EU urgently needs internal reforms due to a democratic deficit, declining legitimacy, and excessive bureaucracy,” he told Nieuwsuur. Read his full response here.
https://bijlagen.nos.nl/artikel-24247524/Reactie_Sander_Smit_op_uitspraken_Nile_Gardiner.pdf
Nile Gardiner is now going a step further with his plea for the abolition of the EU. “I cannot see any future scenario in which Europe would be better off with the European Union than without it.”
There are “deep-rooted concerns in the US capital Washington about what is seen as the suppression of freedom of expression within the European Union,” says Gardiner. The EU has too much power over its member states, he argues.
The conservative thinker points, among other things, to the fines imposed by the European Commission on social media platform X, owned by tech billionaire and former Trump advisor Elon Musk. The fines totaled €120 million and were imposed for violations of an internet law. With these kinds of “attacks on American tech companies,” the EU is undermining American security.
( so, it's actually EU-sovreignty-from-the-US that is offensive/intolerable to the US? .. Gaslighting, as usual )
Furthermore, the Union would not listen to the voice of the people and would limit the power of right-wing radical parties such as the AfD. And the EU would open its doors to mass migration. Gardiner fears that this would lead to the increasing influence of Islam. “All of this means that the EU is doomed.”
( LMAO: highjacking by far-right is obliged, but highjacking by Islam isn't?? Only others' highjacking, not their highjacking, that's problematic, then, I see! )
( here's a grey block of text )
'Europe's response is too weak'
According to leading Irish researcher Judy Dempsey (Carnegie Institute), the European Union's response to the Trump administration's attacks is too weak and too slow. “Europeans are not looking at themselves, but simply saying: don't you dare criticize our democracy.”
Dempsey, who researches international relations, argues that the EU is not making sufficient use of its large internal market as a geopolitical instrument. “The EU is not confident and does not know how to sell itself.”
Trump is capitalizing on this by influencing and dividing Europe politically, says the researcher. “The idea that a divided EU would be to the advantage of the US is at odds with the transatlantic vision that has prevailed since 1945.”
“The weakness of Europeans is that they do not confront far-right populist parties, whether in France, the Netherlands, Germany, or Italy.”
( spot-on, Dempsey! )
According to Gardiner, the plan to turn the EU into a defense force conflicts with American interests. “This undermines the NATO alliance while diverting military resources,” he says. “NATO will hopefully exist for centuries to come, but the EU will eventually disappear.”
( notice how this sets-up the destruction of the EU when Trump GUTS NATO: Russia will then have a more completely unprepared EU to butcher, as Trump wants..
Here is evidence that the Trump-regime's gutting/ditching NATO isn't just my belief, for the last decade or so: https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-introduces-withdrawal-from-nato )
Under Trump, the US supports right-wing nationalist parties in Europe that “insist on more sovereignty and self-determination,” says Gardiner. He mentions, among others, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish President Karol Nawrocki, and the party chairman of France's Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella. Gardiner emphasizes that this is political support; there is no question of financial aid.
( interesting: I hadn't understood that the right had already-won in some countries )
some links from that last bit..
https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/e6d5db69-e0ab-4bec-9dc0-3867b4373019_en?filename=White+paper+for+European+defence+%E2%80%93+Readiness+2030.pdf
https://nos.nl/artikel/2563896-meloni-bezoekt-trump-met-hoop-dat-goede-band-helpt-tegen-heffingen
https://nos.nl/artikel/2581156-nieuwe-poolse-president-nawrocki-trekt-eigen-plan-en-zegt-veel-nee
https://nos.nl/collectie/13972/artikel/2522387-jordan-bardella-is-voor-eu-verkiezingen-nieuwe-politieke-ster-in-frankrijk
( if anybody here can communicat in Dutch, please ask the site that this article is of, if they could please use DeepL to INCLUDE the entire English-speaking-world in their readership??
They're pointing-out important things, & it isn't only Science which is balkanized by language, it is civil-rights, too! )
( here's the last grey-text-block )
Discussion within the Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is an independent right-wing conservative think tank in Washington. They developed ‘Project 2025’, policy proposals that the government is now implementing. Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, the European branch of The Heritage Foundation.
The extreme course that the Heritage Foundation has been pursuing since this year has led to ideological discussions within the institute: in recent weeks, some fifteen employees have left the institute. Differences of opinion included the cessation of support for Ukraine and President Trump's controversial tax policy. Heritage director Kevin Roberts also initially refused to condemn statements made by the far-right, anti-Semitic influencer Nick Fuentes.
This summer, Nieuwsuur investigated how the Trump administration was already actively interfering in the political future of the European Union:
( then there's a video )
I used https://www.deepl.com/en/translator to give me sensical English rendition of the article, because some Asian Redditor identified that it was the ONLY choice which worked for the languages that they knew, & I figured they'd be more competent to judge its effectiveness than I, an English-only person would..
Since then, years ago, it's helped clarify things that other translators botch, badly.
( Firefox's translation can be .. incompetent )
This all brings-up a point:
IF the EU isn't willing to oppose the far-right, THEN the EU's going to be ruled by far-right.
Same as 1930's Germany & 2024+ US..
in which case the population-reduction happening in The Great Filter, throughout the rest of this-century, is going to .. cut-down more Europeans .. than I'd assumed.
( you can't earn your viability/survival, when you're allowing narcissist-nihilists to rule )
That it was going to be cutting-down people among the Americas, among Asia, & among the Middle-East & Africa, was obvious.
But I'd wrongly presumed that the EU would be certain to stand for its life against narcissist-nihilism.
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I mean... the EU itself is doing half their job by using all their political capital on inane shit like Chat Control, instead of using all available political capital for federalisation and strengthening ties with China
The right continues to burn bridges and build barriers
While the left continues to checks notes boycott Harry Potter
The amount of comments referencing the United States of America here is just sad. This is an article about the EU! Contrary to popular belief, there are other countries in the world. It's tiring living in a US-centric world 😮💨
I'm not a fan of making random references to the USA, but this is an article about an american think tank linked to the current us government which is trying to influence european politics.