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Europeans harden views towards US and EU after pandemic
TheLocal.de ^ | 29 June 2020 12:38 CEST+02:00 | Ben McPartland/AFP/The Local

Posted on 07/05/2020 7:34:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai

“Trust in Trump’s America is gone.” The coronavirus crisis has caused a dramatic deterioration in the European public perception of the US and left many believing the EU had become “irrelevant”, new polling finds.

The new survey by the European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR) says the pandemic has traumatized Europeans and left them “feeling alone and vulnerable”.

The survey studied the views of Europeans towards the EU and notably its response to the coronavirus crisis and the results did not make for positive reading.

“There is a powerful sense among citizens of almost all surveyed member states that their country was largely left to fend for itself in dealing with the pandemic,” read the study. “Few respondents to the survey had a positive view of the EU’s coronavirus response. In no surveyed country do a majority of them see a positive change in the performance of EU institutions during the crisis,” the survey found. […]

“Now, Europeans’ trust in Trump’s America is gone. Many of them have been appalled by the country’s chaotic response to COVID-19; the lack of solidarity it showed with Europeans in the March 12th closure of its border to members of the Schengen area; and its lack of leadership in tackling the coronavirus crisis at the global level — or even engagement with the issue (beyond a war of words with the World Health Organization),” the study wrote. “Europeans have accepted the fact that Trump’s America is not necessarily a friend of Europe in a time of need.” …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: 2007; 202003; 20200312; antiamericanism; baadermeinhoff; cfr; china; covid19; ecfr; eu; eussr; fakepolls; fourthreich; germany; hanau; joschkafischer; joshkafischer; mabelvanoranje; markleonard; marttiahtisaari; osi; proliferation; pushpolls; soros; tds; terrorists
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I would say the feelings about the EU are true here, but the feelings about the USA are completely made up in order to compensate for the ECFR’s shock over the bad feelings towards the EU in the poll.
1 posted on 07/05/2020 7:34:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

many believing the EU had become “irrelevant”

Ya think?


2 posted on 07/05/2020 7:38:44 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Olog-hai

I agree, the comments about the US are a made up narrative.


3 posted on 07/05/2020 7:39:11 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: Olog-hai

And this is Trump’s fault because?


4 posted on 07/05/2020 7:41:34 PM PDT by Aliska (Human debris slithering around the primordial soup of Twitter - Rush Limbaugh, May 27, 2020)
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To: Aliska
Why, because they say so, of course.
ECFR was founded in 2007 by Mark Leonard together with a council of fifty founding members, chaired by Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer, and Mabel van Oranje, with initial funding from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Communitas Foundation, Sigrid Rausing, Unicredit and Fundación Para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE). …
Figured I would put that on the record before Wikipedia decides to cover it up.
5 posted on 07/05/2020 7:45:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Yes, what Euroweenies feel really matters to me.


6 posted on 07/05/2020 8:07:19 PM PDT by datura
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To: Aliska

I’m sure China will come to their aid when the next catastrophe strikes.


7 posted on 07/05/2020 8:07:50 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: Olog-hai

Frankly, I don’t care about so-called “global leadership”. The job of the US government is to take care of the US and its interests - period.

If the Yurps want to fund the Chicom mouthpiece WHO, then let them. We’ve carried the load for generations and despite the fact that we were paying way more than anybody else, it became a tool of China. Screw the WHO.


8 posted on 07/05/2020 8:08:55 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Olog-hai

Europe will always be there when they need us.


9 posted on 07/05/2020 8:10:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FLT-bird

Well, any Soros-funded organization such as the ECFR would automatically be against the USA, creating the false notion of “global leadership” to inspire tyrants to that old dream of world empire.


10 posted on 07/05/2020 8:13:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: dfwgator

[[[Europe will always be there when they need us.]]]

And they will fight to the last American.


11 posted on 07/05/2020 8:13:39 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: Olog-hai

Ah, Joshka Fischer... now there is a familiar name. He was a Baader-Meinhoff terrorist known for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a policeman.


12 posted on 07/05/2020 8:21:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Olog-hai; Fedora; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Joshka Fischer Baader-Meinhoff gang ping...


13 posted on 07/05/2020 8:23:46 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Olog-hai

The feelings about the US are exactly what China paid for.
EU was amazingly ineffective.


14 posted on 07/05/2020 8:26:53 PM PDT by mrsmith (US Media: "Every cop is a criminal; ALL the sinners saints!")
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To: Olog-hai

“Trust in Trump’s America is gone.”

https://webmail.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/crap.wav


15 posted on 07/05/2020 8:38:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai; All

As as side note to this thread, please consider the following.

Patriots are reminded that when PDJT went on state visit to England in 2019, it came out that only US “news” channel that goes to other countries is Trump-hating CNN.

And if such is the case, then given the way CNN has helped to weaponize pandemic against PDJT in the states, we probably don’t want to know what European public thinks of PDJT’s America.

Corrections, insights welcome.

Send “Orange Man Bad” federal and state government desperate Democrats and RINOs home in November!

Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a “third term” in office imo.


16 posted on 07/05/2020 8:39:29 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Olog-hai

Joshka Fischer, nuclear plants and China:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079914/posts


17 posted on 07/05/2020 8:41:19 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Olog-hai

Blame the MSM. Not Trump.


18 posted on 07/05/2020 8:55:19 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: piasa

A Soros-funded CFR-wannabe think tank doesn’t like Trump—I’m shocked.


19 posted on 07/05/2020 8:57:37 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: HollyB

Well, one has to expect garbage like this out of an organization funded by Soros.


20 posted on 07/05/2020 9:00:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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