French voters were a little less stark in their view, but still 43 percent thought Trump\u2019s victory was more significant, against 25 percent who believed Macron\u2019s election had a bigger impact on France.<\/p>\n
In Canada, however, respondents were split. Mark Carney\u2019s victory in April, on the back of a campaign promise to stand up to Trump, was viewed by 40 percent as more significant than Trump\u2019s return to power. Only slightly more \u2014 45 percent \u2014 said Trump\u2019s win was more significant for Canada than Carney\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Transparency trumps strength<\/p>\n
In his interview with POLITICO, Trump denounced European leaders as \u201cweak,\u201d provoking retorts from politicians<\/a> across the European Union and even prompting the pope <\/a>to urge him not to \u201cbreak apart\u201d the transatlantic alliance.<\/p>\n The researchers found that Europeans broadly shared Trump\u2019s view that their leaders were weak, at least in comparison to him. They rated Trump as more \u201cstrong and decisive\u201d than their own leader, by 74 percent to 26 percent in Germany; 73 percent to 27 percent in France; and 69 percent to 31 percent in the U.K. Canada was again the notable exception, with 60 percent saying Carney is stronger and more decisive compared to Trump, and only 40 percent saying the reverse.\u00a0<\/p>\n Overall, however, the quality of being a strong and decisive leader is not seen as the most desirable trait among voters questioned in the survey. Far more important across all five countries in the research, including the U.S., is being honest and transparent.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cStrength is not the most important trait for a leader, but it is clearly an area where European leaders\u2019 approach fall short so his words in the POLITICO interview will ring true,\u201d said Wride.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French voters were a little less stark in their view, but still 43 percent thought Trump\u2019s victory was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,7704,8954,299,5187,2816,805,1772],"class_list":{"0":"post-625482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","10":"tag-eu-us-trade-talks","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-politics","14":"tag-foreign-policy","15":"tag-u-s-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115698881226119499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625482","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=625482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}