{"id":469981,"date":"2025-10-03T02:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469981\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T02:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:39:11","slug":"trumps-culture-war-and-the-eus-response-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469981\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s culture war and the EU\u2019s response \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do Donald Trump\u2019s culture war, Moldova\u2019s EU ambitions, and Czechia\u2019s upcoming parliamentary election have in common? They all reveal how Europe is being tested \u2014 and sometimes humiliated.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton speaks with Pawe\u0142 Zerka, senior policy fellow<strong> <\/strong>at the European Council on Foreign Relations, about his new report. It argues that Trump is waging a deliberate culture war against Europe \u2014 trying to weaken the continent, polarize its politics, and strip it of its dignity.<\/p>\n<p>We also bring you a dispatch from Moldova, where POLITICO\u2019s Gabriel Gavin<strong> <\/strong>reports on last weekend\u2019s election and what it means for the country\u2019s EU path. And we also zoom in on Czechia\u2019s election with political marketing scholar Anna Shavit in Prague, who unpacks Andrej Babi\u0161\u2019 comeback campaign \u2014 and his oddly revealing \u201cshovel theory\u201d of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecfr.eu\/publication\/reality-show-why-europe-must-not-cave-in-trumps-culture-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reality show: Why Europe must not cave in Trump\u2019s culture war<\/a>, by Pawe\u0142 Zerka<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-must-unblock-moldova-membership-bid-government-deputy-pm-gherasimov-historic-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU must unblock Moldova\u2019s membership bid, government urges after historic vote<\/a>, by Gabriel Gavin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/polls-moldova-vote-eu-path-russia-interference-election-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro-EU party secures majority in high-stakes Moldovan election<\/a>, by Gabriel Gavin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do Donald Trump\u2019s culture war, Moldova\u2019s EU ambitions, and Czechia\u2019s upcoming parliamentary election have in common? They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[71115,11783,97491,3032,13071,32,5898,28284,6561,2000,26256,21386,299,5187,2816,85427,2190,51099,6657,13491,97492,332,6717,657,49,1220,1781,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-469981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-andrej-babis","9":"tag-antonio-costa","10":"tag-czech-politics","11":"tag-czech-republic","12":"tag-disinformation","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-donald-tusk","15":"tag-elections-in-europe","16":"tag-enlargement","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-eu-confidential","19":"tag-eu-treaties","20":"tag-europe","21":"tag-european","22":"tag-european-politics","23":"tag-general-petr-pavel","24":"tag-hungary","25":"tag-maia-sandu","26":"tag-migration","27":"tag-moldova","28":"tag-petr-fiala","29":"tag-russia","30":"tag-transatlantic-relations","31":"tag-ukraine","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","34":"tag-viktor-orban","35":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115307922427588596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}