10/12/2025 09:26
The Guardian
Ukrainian president’s comments came after US president Donald Trump accused him of clinging to powerThe Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, and author of The Far Right Today.As Europeans reflect on Trump’s latest comments on Europe and the new US national security strategy, here is analysis from Cas Mudde, a leading academic working on far-right movements in Europe.On the same day that Donald Trump received his made-to-order “peace prize” from his newest pal, Fifa president “Johnny” Infantino, his administration published an equally gaudy national security strategy. The relatively short document oozes Trump and Trumpism. It starts out with the typically modest claim that the president has brought “our nation – and the world – back from the brink of catastrophe and disaster”.Even if the strategy mostly formalises the ongoing actions and statements of Trump and his administration, it should be heeded as a warning for the world, and Europe in particular.Ahead of the meeting, UK prime minister Keir Starmer and Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen have called on European leaders to urgently curb joint human rights laws so that states can take tougher action to protect their borders and see off the rise of the populist right across the continent.Before a crucial European summit on Wednesday, the prime ministers urged fellow members to “go further” in modernising the interpretation of the European convention on human rights (ECHR) to prevent asylum seekers using it to avoid deportation. Continue reading...
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