London – The Roadshow of “Make America Great Again” arrived in Europe this week with events in two nations in which American conservatives see main opportunities for a new transatlantic political culture, a molded by the right populism of President Donald Trump and imbued with a great rhetoric of “clash of civilizations.”
The Conservative Conference of Political Action, CPAC, opened its week of European events on Tuesday in Jasonka, Poland, where National Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem was among the speakers, urging the Poles to vote for the right -wing presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki in the choice of Escudement of this weekend.
Noem avoided the non -alignment diplomatic norm in elections in allied nations, as well as other administration officials, including vice president JD Vance. “You will be the leaders who will return to Europe to conservative values,” attendees told Jasonka.
“We need to choose the right leader,” Noem said, dismissing Nawrocki’s rival, the liberal mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzawski, as “an absolute train disaster as a leader.”
“Donald Trump is a strong leader for us, but you have the opportunity to have such a strong leader in Karol if you make it the leader of this country,” said Noem.
The National Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Jasonka, Poland, on May 27, 2025.
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The next CPAC stop will be in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday, organized by the populist prime minister, Viktor Orban, a totem of the European anti-establishment right that has long enjoyed cozy relationships with Trump for a long time.
Peter Kreko, director of the Institute of Political Capital in Budapest, said that Orban is positioning himself as “another receiver of the export of soft power of magician.”
“Orban is still positioning himself as someone who is exporting his campaign tactics, which can help others in terms of campaign consulting and provide help from the United States,” Kreko said. “He is exchanging his good association with Donald Trump.”
On the website that promotes the Hungary event of CPAC, the organization attacked “corrupt elites” that said “betrayed everything that once made us great: the patriotic virtue has been replaced by internationalism, common sense by bureaucracy and tradition for madness awakened.”
“People on both sides of the Atlantic have risen against this repossed version of socialism, but success can only be completed when the tides of change converge and the era of patriotism begins in both poles of the West,” CPAC wrote.
Internationalism is in charge and center of CPAC event agendas. Among the speakers in Budapest will be the American conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Santiago Abascal, the leader of the Vox party of the extreme right of Spain.
It will also attend other European conservative politicians of Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, France, Estonia and Greece, among others.
“With the triumph of Donald Trump and the emergence of the European right, the age of the patriots of Western civilization has begun: CPAC Hungary 2025 will be the center of this movement,” said the organizing website.
But CPAC events arrive at a time of danger to transatlantic relationships. Trump’s “Day of Liberation” rates threaten to touch a expensive commercial war with the European Union.
Trump has not hidden his disdain through the block. “Now we are going to accuse the European Union,” Trump said by presenting his tariff plans in April. “They are very hard. Very, very difficult merchants. You know, you think of the European Union, very friendly. They start us. It is very sad to see. It is very pathetic.”
Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, arrives in Tirana, Albania, on May 16, 2025.
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Trump announced last weekend that his 50% planned tariffs on EU goods would be delayed in July. But the block remains ongoing collision with the Trump administration.
The economic and political aspirations of all EU leaders depend largely on the bloc’s own fortune, even for those populist leaders such as Orban that are often defined in opposition to the great European project.
The president’s European offensive could still like the loops between the Maga Movement and its foreign allies, if the “central interests of the latter appear directly threatened by Trumpism,” News Celia Belin, a fellow of senior policies of the European Board of Foreign Affairs and head of his Paris office, told ABC.
Kati Piri, a Hungarian member of the Dutch Parliament and the spokesman for the Labor Party for Foreign Affairs, Migration and Asylum, told ABC News in a statement that “Trump’s unilateral policies are designed to harm all Europeans, and that the so -called allies will not be saved.”
“The continuous threats of Trump of tariffs about EU products and global trade wars are making him an unpopular friend, and this is fragmenting the unity of the global right,” Piri suggested.
The brightness and glamor of the Budapest event of CPAC will be welcome to Orban, said Kreko, while Prime Minister fights with his own domestic challenges, especially the meteoric ascent of the liberal opposition leader Peter Magyar.
Around 10,000 people gathered in Budapest earlier this month to protest government plans to restrict the rights of independent media organizations, the last in a wave of great protests against Orban and its government of the Fidesz party.
Kreko said that Orban’s popularity is marking after 15 years of uninterrupted power, even when he positions himself at the forefront of the nascent “International Iliberal” of the right.
“Orban is not as popular as he, let’s say in 2022, when he won the last elections,” Kreko said. “Its popularity is decreasing, it is having difficulty recovering it and also uses increasingly authoritarian tools to maintain power.”
“It has difficulties at home that persuades its own constituency that the regime that is promoting throughout the world is as powerful, as beautiful, as successful as the Maga camp in the United States sees it,” Kreko added.
A participant uses a baseball cap with reference to President Donald Trump during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Jasonka, Poland, on May 27, 2025.
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Trump’s America has become the center of gravity of the global right -wing movement, with the weight of the federal government and the broader national conservative movement behind it.
This week, Samuel Samson, a main advisor to the Office of Democracy, Human Rights and work of the State Department, gave an indication of the predominant winds in the American transatlantic policy, publishing an article that establishes “the need for civilizational allies in Europe.”
Affirming the existence of “an aggressive campaign against Western civilization,” Samson accused European governments of having “turned into a seed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom and many other assaults on democratic self -government.”
When opening the CPAC event in Poland on Tuesday, President Matt Schlapp told the attendees: “The globalists intend to get each of us one by one: to embarrass us, silence, bank, to ruin us, make our children become against us.”
Therefore, he said, it was important to “win all these elections, even in Poland, which are so important to the freedom of people everywhere.”
For now, Kreko suggested that the Maga Transatlantic project is incomplete, as well as the recent electoral results in Romania, Portugal and the first round of the presidential vote of Poland in which the conservative and extreme -right candidates did not gain power.
“What is common between Trump, Orban and many others in Central and Eastern Europe is that they really want to build this illiberal international,” Kreko said.
“But at the same time, we must also be careful to overestimate its impact,” he said.
