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That has rapidly changed, O\u2019Brien said. Though unlike many networks of progressive institutions, the right has yet to set up a WhatsApp group for collaboration \u2014 \u201cIf there is, we\u2019re not part of it,\u201d said O\u2019Brien \u2014 right-wing operatives and thinkers meet regularly at major events, like the CPAC and NatCon summit series.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They also invite one another to co-host meetings or attend events as panelists. From the U.S. side, The Heritage Foundation, which authored Trump\u2019s Project 2025 blueprint for government, is a frequent guest of the European right.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, The Heritage Foundation\u2019s McCarthy appeared<\/a> on a panel in Rome co-hosted with the Fondazione Machiavelli. McCarthy said The Heritage Foundation was fostering ties with groups in Europe through joint summit hosting and research. Their aim is to push back against \u201cEuropean federalism\u201d and the \u201cgreen transition madness\u201d while fostering a vision for families that excludes gay couples, trans rights and promotes higher birth rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"U.S. government funding for European institutions is not a new phenomenon: Throughout the postwar era the U.S. has supported projects that promoted democratic ideals and American-style liberalism. | Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Collaboration among such groups is \u201cgrowing,\u201d said Fondazione Machiavelli President Scalea. On its website<\/a>, the center advertises formal partnerships or signed memoranda with a series of other right-wings groups: The Heritage Foundation, the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, Hungary\u2019s Oeconomus Economic Research Foundation, and the Center for Fundamental Rights, which organizes CPAC.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s most like a friendship,\u201d he said. \u201cSince we have common missions, we have shared values and shared views of the future \u2026 We\u2019re not formally intertwined, we have no institutional bond and link, we are not exchanging money or resources \u2026 We are just working together because this is making it more effective for everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scalea added that his institute had a \u201clot of commonality with the Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That has rapidly changed, O\u2019Brien said. Though unlike many networks of progressive institutions, the right has yet to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7480,2740,32410,1213,3420,1395,2001,6215,21882,365,2438,32,2000,299,5187,1699,1214,805,36,366,2190,2199,44,6657,2597,12337,14791,704,9899,45,2343,48,332,811,1199,2196,2824,49,1220,1781],"class_list":["post-760922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-advocacy","tag-africa","tag-alice-weidel","tag-americas","tag-bonds","tag-china","tag-communications","tag-cooperation","tag-davos","tag-denmark","tag-department","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-exports","tag-foreign-policy","tag-france","tag-greenland","tag-hungary","tag-italy","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-migration","tag-military","tag-missions","tag-munich-security-conference","tag-new-zealand","tag-ngos","tag-playbook","tag-research","tag-rights","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-services","tag-south-africa","tag-tanks","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-viktor-orban"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760922","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=760922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}