{"id":804909,"date":"2026-03-05T04:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/804909\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:52:15","slug":"europes-nationalists-head-to-washington-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/804909\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s nationalists head to Washington \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson is the star attraction. But the conference is otherwise more of a low-wattage affair, with secondary speakers like recent Romanian presidential candidate George Simion and largely mid-ranking officials from Austria, Belgium, Georgia, Cyprus, Croatia, Serbia and Germany. There are no listed speakers from the Trump administration. A White House spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the Europeans, it\u2019s a chance to bask in the success of a kindred party at the peak of its power \u2014 and maybe have a little Trumpian aura rub off on them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MAGA movement is extremely important for Romanians, especially for the conservative-patriotic side, those who identify with MAGA values and policies,\u201d said Simion, who is the leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, which has a big polling lead over centrist rivals, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/romania\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLITICO\u2019s Poll of Polls<\/a>. He said he looked forward to seeing Johnson, whom he met at Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration in 2025 and called \u201cone of our friends in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luna has cultivated ties with like-minded European lawmakers, as have a handful of other House Republicans. David Leatherwood, Luna\u2019s spokesperson, said those meetings were \u201cfocused on understanding the political climate in Europe, hearing concerns firsthand and fostering candid dialogue on transatlantic issues.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s conference, he added, would promote dialogue on energy, free speech and immigration. Supporters have described it as a \u201ccounter World Economic Forum\u201d event, with Leatherwood saying that those types of conferences \u201chave actively left \u2018normal\u2019 citizens out of the conversations regarding policy, both nationally and internationally, that directly affect them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also raised \u201cgrowing concerns in Europe over censorship, political exclusion and the narrowing of acceptable public debate\u201d and said Luna \u201cbelieves it is important to hear directly from opposition and dissident voices\u201d on the topics that will be discussed during the conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnson is the star attraction. But the conference is otherwise more of a low-wattage affair, with secondary speakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7907,1789,13490,8612,32,2000,299,5187,1105,33113,2307,1824,366,714,6567,59423,49],"class_list":["post-804909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-austria","tag-belgium","tag-croatia","tag-cyprus","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-far-right","tag-george-simion","tag-georgia","tag-germany","tag-greenland","tag-joe-biden","tag-serbia","tag-tommy-robinson","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116174778909556702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804909","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=804909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}