Asked by POLITICO to respond to Trump\u2019s withering assessment, the European Commission\u2019s\u00a0Chief Spokesperson Paula Pinho mounted a\u00a0spirited defense of\u00a0Europe\u2019s leaders.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very pleased and grateful to have excellent leaders, starting with the leader in this\u00a0house, president of the European Commission von der\u00a0Leyen, who we are really proud of, who can lead us in the many challenges that the world is facing,\u201d Pinho said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pinho also lauded the \u201cmany other leaders at the head of the 27 member states that are part of this European project, of this peace project, who are leading the\u00a0EU with\u00a0all the challenges that it is facing,\u00a0from trade to war\u00a0in our neighborhood.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She added,\u00a0\u201cSo let me use the opportunity to\u00a0reiterate what is the\u00a0sense of many\u00a0of the millions of citizens in the\u00a0EU: We are proud of our leaders.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Europe has repeatedly come under attack from the Trump administration in recent days, with a U.S. national security manifesto suggesting the continent is in civilizational decline, and top officials lambasting\u00a0the bloc for censorship after the Commission fined Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform X\u00a0\u20ac120 million\u00a0for breaching\u00a0transparency rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked by POLITICO to respond to Trump\u2019s withering assessment, the European Commission\u2019s\u00a0Chief Spokesperson Paula Pinho mounted a\u00a0spirited defense…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":435768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[262,69,66,398,20038,50,2855,4995,345,130,52655,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-435767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-neighborhood","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-platforms","16":"tag-security","17":"tag-social-media","18":"tag-trade","19":"tag-transparency","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115690092850126529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}