Make Europe again “(Make Europe Great Again, Mega): With this slogan, inspired by Donald Trump’s” Make America again “, many European leaders of the right will participate today in Madrid, where It aims to defend a European Union’s “180 -degree turn”.

With Victor Orban and Marin Lepen at the forefront, leaders of the European Parliament team “patriots for Europe” are planning to gather in a hotel near the Spanish capital.

With 86 MEPs in a total of 720, 30 of which by RN, this team is the third force in the European Parliament after the June 2024 European elections.

According to the far -right Spanish Vox Party, which is organizing the meeting, about 2,000 people are expected to attend the meeting, scheduled for the next dinner among patriot leaders for Europe and Kevin Roberts, US president of the US Center Foundation.

The purpose of the meeting is to “determine the strategy to be followed” by the European Parliament team, the VOX emphasized, which calls for a “180 -degree turn” of European policy.

Who will attend – what will they discuss

The attendees are expected to attend speeches beyond the Prime Minister of Hungary and the leadership of the National Alarm (RN) of France, the Vice President of the Italian government Matteo Salvini (Lega), former Czech Prime Minister Antio. Wilders, sometimes described as “Dutch Trump” and whose party for freedom first came out in the November parliamentary elections.

The Alternative for Germany (AFD), who often receives support signals from Ilon Musk, and the brothers of Italian Prime Minister George Meloni, the only European leader who attended the US President’s swearing -in ceremony, are not attending this meeting. They belong to other political groups of the European Parliament.

For the politicians to participate, the Madrid Summit will serve as a “demonstration of power”, commented on AFP by Steven Forty of the Barcelona Autonomous University, in his view the political alliance of Patriots for Europe, which was created just before A few months, there is a fragile coalition.

However, it has to compete in Brussels two other political alliances, conservatives and reformers (80 MEPs) and Europe of the dominant nations (26 MEPs).

In this context, patriots for Europe want “to show that they are at the center of competition” with these two coalitions, Forty underlined.

According to this researcher, patriots for Europe want more to “benefit from the wave caused by Trump’s victory and the shock of the EU’s Trump measures” to reshape “balances” within the EU.