How did the extreme right of Europe react to the Ukrainian policy and treatment of Trump de Zelenskyy?

Many far -right deputies in Europe are trying to stay in Donald Trump's good books and avoid criticizing it, while retaining credibility at home.

European European and conservative circles have long sought to establish links with the American Republican Party while admiring its right -wing and conservative policies.

But the decision of US President Donald Trump to stop military support in Ukraine and his spit with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy caused intermediate indignation across Europe.

Many parts of the right and extreme right engage in a complex balance, which implies publicly demonstrating their support for Trump – or at the very least refrain from criticizing it – while trying to remain popular and credible at the national level.

Le Pen: 'quite normal hardwords'

Politicians of the far -right national party in France have long sought to establish links with Trump and the Republican Party. The American president described former party leader Marine Le Pen as the “best candidate” in the 2017 French presidential race.

But after Trump's hard exchange with Zelenskyy in the oval office last week, Le Pen called the “brutality” of the suspension of American military support to Ukraine.

She did not criticize the motivations for Trump's decision. However, she told the newspaper Le Figaro that she had found “the brutality of this reprehensible decision”, adding that this decision was “very cruel for the Ukrainian soldiers engaged in the patriotic defense of their country”.

These declarations marked a passage from the position of Pen holders of days earlier, after having underlying the Oval Office incident when questioned by journalists in Paris.

Le Pen said that “world leaders are able to talk to each other with passion, can have friction, that hard words can be exchanged is quite normal after all”, but has recognized that spit can have generated “legitimate emotions”.

When Russia illegally annexed Ukraine Crimea over ten years ago, Le Pen said it was a Russian territory and opposite sanctions imposed by the EU in Moscow.

Other members of the National Rally defended Trump's exchange with Zelenskyy.

In an interview with the French radio broadcaster RTL, the legislator Jean-Philippe Tangugy said that Zelenskyy “was not humiliated”, refuting the claims that Trump and his vice-president JD Vance adopted an intimidative type.

These contradictions arise while the National Rally – under the direction of Jordan Bardella – sought to put away his image and his former links with Russia, which did not lower well with the French electorate after the large -scale invasion of Moscow Ukraine in 2022.

Farage: “I would not expect a guest to be rude to me in my own house”

Last month, Nigel Farage, the leader of the far-right reform party of the United Kingdom and former leader of the UKIP UKIP Independence Party (UKIP), his supporters told Trump's presidential victory in 2024 “should serve as inspiration.”

But weeks later, when Trump said that Zelenskyy was a “dictator” on his social platform of truth, Farage said: “You should always take everything Donald Trump says seriously, you should not always take things that Donald Trump says absolutely. I think it applies a lot in this case.”

Farage comments echo a declaration made by the former campaign director of the American president Corey Lewandowski in a 2016 interview.

“You (the media) have taken everything that Donald Trump literally said,” he said.

Like Lewandowski, Farage did not exactly contradict Trump. Instead, he blamed the media and those who held him responsible for his statements.

“Trump says that Jump and Farage asks:” What is the height “”, told Euronews Russell Foster, lecturer in international politics at King's College.

“Nigel Farage still continues on his support for Trump, even if the British people clearly do not like him. He has misunderstood the room and that could massively hinder his political position,” said Foster.

Although Farage supporters are more likely to be sympathetic for Russia and Trump, the American president's criticism intensified in the United Kingdom following his tablecloth with Zelenskyy.

A survey carried out by Yougov after the meeting of Trump-Zelenskyy revealed that 80% of the British were unfavorable to the American president, against 73% two weeks earlier.

In a recent interview with the British broadcaster LBC, Farage tried to dodge questions about the issue. When asked if there was something “untimely” in Trump's language, he said “if there had been or that there was not, we are heading towards peace”.

While Farage said that he “did not defend Vance and Trump”, he echoes the statements of the couple according to which the Ukrainian president was rude to them, saying: “I would not expect a guest to be rude to me in my own house.”

Farage also criticized the appearance of Zelenskyy, declaring: “If I came to the White House, I would make sure I was wearing a suit and my shoes were cleaned”.

AFD: “Peace even without the beggar Zelenskyy”

The German alternative for Germany (AFD) worked hard to establish links with the Trump administration, with the technological billionaire of the American president Elon Musk consisting of an electoral campaign event by the far -right party in January.

After the punch of the oval office last week, the AFD co-leader, Alice Weidel, published a photo of Trump who stirred her finger on Zelenskyy with the “historic legend. Trump & vance”.

His party does not have to support Ukraine.

Last year, a large number of AFD politicians left the German Bundestag building when Zelenskyy called on legislators for more support for his country. During its electoral campaign, AFD also called for German military support to Ukraine.

In another article shared on X, AFD politician Tino Chrupalla said peace in Ukraine should be achieved even if Zelenskyy was not involved.

“President Trump cancels talks with President Zelensky because he is not ready for peace. Peace must always be made, even without pre-president Zelensky,” said Chrupalla.

Meanwhile, Björn Hoecke, who is the most radical wing leader in the party, blamed Zelenskyy for the end of the oval office meeting, declaring that the Ukrainian president had “decided to insult his hosts”.

While AFD continues to support Trump, some experts say that their rhetoric has been relatively cautious in the light of recent events.

“They seem to have attenuated a little pro-Trump and pro-Putin rhetoric,” said Foster of King's College.

Orban: “Strong men make peace, weak men make war”

Some European politicians can reintegrate their court in the court in Trump, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is not one of them.

In an article shared on X, shortly after the meeting of the oval office of Trump-Zelenskyy, the leader of the ruling party Fidesz wrote: “Strong men make peace, weak men make war,” praising Trump to have “courageously”.

Orbán has long been one of the most vocal criticism in the EU. Associated with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Hungarian Prime Minister has always blocked European military support plans for Ukraine, saying that Western support prolongs the Russia War.

“I do not think that Orbán is necessarily sympathetic to Trump, but he is very pro-Putin, so he considers Trump as a path of Putin,” said Foster.

The Hungarian Prime Minister urged the EU to follow in the footsteps of Trump and to open direct talks with the Kremlin while blocking the approval of the joint conclusions supporting Ukraine at a summit held by the 27 European leaders in Brussels on Thursday.

“Orban really likes Putin and wants to be its ally, but also likes to have the power to describe itself as a kind of resistance to the European Union and globalization,” concluded Foster.

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