This week, President Trump posted to Truth Social: “100% CORRECT,” in response to a Financial Times opinion article from US Ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder titled “Europe should repeal the directive that’s killing growth.”

Matt Mowers, EU-US Forum Board Member and former Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, made the following statement:

“Thank you, President Trump for agreeing 100% that the European Union must repeal its growth-killing CSDDD. This extraterritorial directive is Brussels’ attempt to export their ESG bureaucracy to the United States, saddle our companies with massive compliance costs, and stunt American innovation. Any trade deal with the EU must include scrapping all extraterritoriality tied to the CSDDD and CSRD in the EU’s omnibus package. I applaud President Trump for drawing a clear line and defending U.S. competitiveness, and protecting American jobs.”

In light of President Trump’s Truth Social post, the EU-US Forum posted to X saying, “President Trump is right: Repeal the EU’s growth-killing CSDDD and CSRD. The EU is trying to punish American companies with extraterritorial overreach. President Trump won’t let that happen.”

BACKGROUND:

• EU-US Forum Board Member Matt Mowers penned an op-ed in late December warning about the war that the EU bureaucracy is waging on American industry with the CSDDD and CSRD. In the piece he writes, “The president and his team have not and will not sit idly by while a group of failed social engineers in a foreign capital attempts to regulate our best companies into oblivion. It’s important that they keep up the pressure and not let up in these final days of the year, when Brussels attempts to do its worst on CSRD and CSDDD.”
• Mowers joined the Dana Loesch Show in November to discuss the dangers of the CSDDD and CSRD. Mowers said, “It would subject American companies to the same exact onerous regulations that have stifled their own economy in Europe, here in the US.”
• The EU-US Forum praised Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott and House Financial Services Chairman French Hill in December for authoring a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, calling on the Trump administration to push the EU to stop the CSDDD and CSRD.
• In December, EU-US Forum ran a six-figure ad campaign featuring “America Calls The Shots” in Washington, DC, highlighting the dangers of the extraterritorial EU regulations on American companies in November.
• Polling from the EU-US Forum in November found that U.S. voters reject the EU’s CSRD/CSDDD and want the Trump Administration to use trade leverage to protect American businesses from these far-left ESG regulations.
• EU-US Forum released a six-figure ad campaign in November urging President Trump to keep standing up to EU rules that threaten America’s economic Golden Age. “Dictate” took aim at the European Union’s CSDDD and CSRD and the threat these rules pose to American companies.

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BUDAPEST, HUNGARY — The EU-US Forum, an American nonprofit organization that aims to advance President Trump’s conservative agenda in Europe and stop the EU’s radical leftism from coming to the US, hosted an event in Budapest, Hungary today with Jason Miller, former Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump, and board members Joe Grogan and Matt Mowers.

The event was a panel discussion that focused on EU-US relations and covered topics such as the EU’s extreme censorship policies like the Digital Markets Act (DMA), overregulation in Europe’s energy sector via the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), unchecked illegal migration, and President Trump’s approach to the EU on trade and defense spending.

Watch the full panel discussion here, and some highlights can be found below.

JASON MILLER: “President Trump is going to be the torchbearer for sovereignty and for freedoms. ”


JASON MILLER: “‘Joe Biden allowed “two Hungary’s worth” of illegal immigrants coming into the US in a four-year-period… if you don’t think that the Prime Minister’s opponents won’t do the same thing, you have another thing coming.”

JASON MILLER: “We take for granted our First Amendment right… other countries have no embedded right to freedom of speech. Free speech is something that President Trump will be addressing in the EU and the UK.”

MATT MOWERS: “You had an attack on free speech, government bureaucrats going after tech innovators, farming policies running out family farmers… and people were fed up.”

JASON MILLER: “The last line of defense for the extreme radical left is the legal system… people should be able to embrace the sovereignty and individuality and the rights that they hold as citizens.”

Watch a recording of the event here.

BACKGROUND:

• The EU-US Forum is led by multiple former Trump administration officials: Matt Mowers, former State Department official, Joseph Grogan, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Johnny DeStefano, former Counselor to the President.
• In its inaugural year, the EU-US Forum has held events in Rome, Italy with Vivek Ramaswamy, in Vienna, Austria with Richard Grenell, and in Washington, D.C with several policy experts. These events brought awareness to the EU’s radical left-wing ideas that need to be stopped from spreading to the United States.
• In early 2024, EU-US Forum ran a six-figure paid media effort taking aim at the far-left policy agenda of the EU. This included campaigns in:
  • Rome, Italy with ads that said “EU Policies Are Putting Western Civilization at Risk.”
  • Budapest, Hungary during CPAC with ads that read “Demand Change in the European Union.”
  • Maastricht, Netherlands during the Maastricht Debate with the message: “Demand Borders. Demand Free Speech. Demand Change at the EU.”
• The group released polling in May 2024 that revealed shocking discoveries that predicted the rightward shift in Europe that played out in its 2024 parliamentary elections.

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WASHINGTON — The EU-US Forum, an American nonprofit organization that aims to advance President Trump’s conservative agenda in Europe and stop the EU’s radical leftism from coming to the US, conducted polling in five European Union member states that found citizens largely feel the EU is moving in the wrong direction and are frustrated with high taxes, government inefficiency, and the rise of the far left.

On behalf of the EU-US Forum, the Tyson Group conducted public opinion surveys in five European Union member states: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Portugal from January 13 – January 22, 2025.

Read the full polling memo HERE.

The poll largely found that EU citizens are disappointed with current leadership and conservative sentiments and policies are overwhelmingly popular.

Highlights include:

• • European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has a net -4 favorability rating across all five EU member states polled. In her home country of Germany, von der Leyen is underwater, with 60% disapproving or are unsure of the job she’s doing.
  • After experiencing not one but two government collapses in the past year, 74% of French citizens disapprove of the job President Emmanuel Macron is doing in France.
  • A staggering 70% of Germans disapprove of Chancellor Olaf Scholz. This comes as Germany’s conservative party, AfD, is on the rise ahead of Germany’s elections.
  • A significant portion of French (73%) and Italian (63%) respondents expressed uncertainty or disagreement with the EU’s lack of representativeness for recent EU election outcomes where conservative parties gained significant victories.
  • Nearly a majority of respondents said their personal financial situation has worsened in the past year.
  • Conservative sentiments are overwhelmingly popular in Europe: reestablishing domestic food production (83% approve) and implementing harsher border controls to reduce the flood of illegal migrants (72% approve).
  • Following the political chaos that France and Germany have faced in the past year, respondents in these countries believe, by a wide margin, that the rise of the far left is a bad thing: 84% and 61% respectively.

Alex Alvarado, Tyson Group Vice President, said in a memo about the poll:

“A significant portion of citizens feel the EU is moving in the wrong direction, largely due to concerns over its leftist agenda and leaders like European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French President Macron and German Chancellor Scholz who face high disapproval ratings.

Many respondents also feel that recent EU election outcomes, which saw significant gains by conservative parties, are not accurately reflected in the EU’s policies. Issues like the rising cost of living, healthcare, and migration remain top concerns, while conservative solutions like stricter border controls and a focus on domestic food production garnered widespread support. This survey highlights a clear shift toward conservatism across Europe, with citizens expressing frustration with high taxes, government inefficiency, and the perceived rise of the far-left.”

BACKGROUND:

• • The EU-US Forum is an American nonprofit organization aimed at advancing President Trump’s conservative agenda in Europe and stopping the EU’s radical leftism from coming to the US.
  • The group released polling in May 2024 that revealed shocking discoveries that predicted the rightward shift in Europe that played out in its 2024 parliamentary elections.
  • The EU-US Forum is led by multiple former Trump administration officials. Matt Mowers, former Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of State and Joseph Grogan, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, serve as Board Members.
  • Throughout the spring, EU-US Forum ran a six-figure paid media effort taking aim at the far-left policy agenda of the EU. This included campaigns in:
    • Rome, Italy with ads that said “EU Policies Are Putting Western Civilization at Risk.”
    • Budapest, Hungary during CPAC with ads that read “Demand Change in the European Union.”
    • Maastricht, Netherlands during the Maastricht Debate with the message: “Demand Borders. Demand Free Speech. Demand Change at the EU.”

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“The United States will be respected by the world again under President Trump — and his recent selections of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and Michael Waltz as National Security Advisor ensure a restoration of Western dominance on the world stage.

American and European voters alike outright rejected the failures of globalists in Brussels and D.C. this year, and Rubio and Waltz are two strong leaders who will promote a commonsense energy agenda, peace through our military strength, and immigration policies that put America and its allies first.

The EU-US Forum supports these selections by President Trump and we have no doubt that Rubio and Waltz will restore President Trump’s America First foreign policy agenda.”

BACKGROUND:

• The EU-US Forum is led by multiple former Trump administration officials. Matt Mowers, former Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, serves as the Founding Board Member, and Joseph Grogan, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, serves as a Board Member.
• In its inaugural year, the EU-US Forum has held four events: Three in the EU (Rome, Paris, and Vienna) and one in Washington, D.C., in addition to joining Warsaw Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation’s “Future of Europe” conference in Warsaw and CPAC Hungary. The events brought awareness to the EU’s radical left-wing ideas that need to be stopped from expanding from Europe to the United States. 
• Ahead of the EU elections last July, the EU-US Forum ran a $750,000 paid media campaign across Europe with ads in Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. Messages of the ads included:

• • “Too many taxes. Too much environmental regulation. Free Germany from these economic shackles. Demand change at the EU.”
  • “EU immigration policies are making you less safe.”
  • “Demand free speech. Demand change at the EU.”

• Ahead of the elections, The EU-US Forum released polling in May predicting the rightward swing due to EU citizens becoming increasingly concerned with illegal immigration, the cost of living, high taxes, excessive regulations, and government censorship. The EU-US Forum polling results suggested EU citizens are increasingly looking for conservative policy solutions and that conservatives would make major gains in the elections.

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“President Trump made an excellent choice by tapping Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as our next Ambassador to the United Nations, and the EU-US Forum is ecstatic for the much-needed change in leadership she will bring to the role. She is a strong, vocal, battle-tested public servant who will work tirelessly to assure the United States reasserts its leadership on the world stage.

This is just one of the first of many steps from President Trump that will restore the much-needed strength and leadership of the West.

Congratulations, Rep. Stefanik!”

BACKGROUND:

• The EU-US Forum is led by multiple former Trump administration officials. Matt Mowers, former Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, serves as the Founding Board Member, and Joseph Grogan, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, serves as a Board Member.
• In its inaugural year, the EU-US Forum has held four events: Three in the EU (Rome, Paris, and Vienna) and one in Washington, D.C., in addition to joining Warsaw Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation’s “Future of Europe” conference in Warsaw and CPAC Hungary. The events brought awareness to the EU’s radical left-wing ideas that need to be stopped from expanding from Europe to the United States. 
• Ahead of the EU elections last July, the EU-US Forum ran a $750,000 paid media campaign across Europe with ads in Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. Messages of the ads included:

• • “Too many taxes. Too much environmental regulation. Free Germany from these economic shackles. Demand change at the EU.”
  • “EU immigration policies are making you less safe.”
  • “Demand free speech. Demand change at the EU.”

• Ahead of the elections, The EU-US Forum released polling in May predicting the rightward swing due to EU citizens becoming increasingly concerned with illegal immigration, the cost of living, high taxes, excessive regulations, and government censorship. The EU-US Forum polling results suggested EU citizens are increasingly looking for conservative policy solutions and that conservatives would make major gains in the elections.

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VIENNA, Austria – The EU-US Forum, an American nonprofit organization that shines a light on the harmful policies coming out of the EU in order to stop them from spreading to the US, hosted a fireside chat discussion in Vienna, Austria with Former Ambassador to Germany and Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell and Guy Benson, Fox News Contributor, nationally-syndicated radio host, Townhall political editor, author, and columnist.

Grenell and Benson discussed the future of EU-US relations as well as current events, including the EU’s attempt to censor President Trump’s X Spaces interview and the nomination of Kamala Harris. Grenell notably shared his insights about the possibility of a future Trump Administration and how President Trump would approach global matters in his second term.

Watch a recording of the event HERE.

Ambassador Richard Grenell calls EU bureaucrats “enemies of free speech:

BENSON: There was this little contretemps back home in the last 24 hours, Donald Trump did this lengthy interview or conversation with Elon Musk on Twitter or X, and it went a couple hours. I read that there were a million people who watched. And leading up to it, there’s a lot of hand-wringing in the American press. You saw someone on CNN expressing concern that Donald Trump would be able to say whatever he wanted to say, which is literally free speech. And they were concerned about that. We had a Washington Post reporter ask the press secretary at the White House, ‘Could the president or the administration do anything to stop this conversation?’ And then there was this missive, this letter, fired off by some EU Commissar, almost threatening, sort of saber rattling, about free speech and harmful content and that sort of thing surrounding this conversation. The Trump campaign put out quite a statement in response to that EU official calling the EU broadly enemies of free speech. Do you agree with that?

GRENELL: Yeah, of course, they are enemies of free speech. First of all, the two Americans talking about what’s going on, talking about the election, is all about freedom of speech, if someone is going to try to have a chilling effect to say they shouldn’t be able to speak freely because there’s hate speech or misinformation, first of all, this misinformation nonsense has got to stop. It’s not misinformation. Sometimes it’s someone’s opinion, and the best way to confront something that you don’t agree with is to speak out and give your facts and let people decide. There should never be a government agency or entity deciding to stop dissent because they think they know what’s right.”

Ambassador Richard Grenell on the advice he gives to world leaders when asked how to prepare for another Trump term:

BENSON: You speak on a regular basis with world leaders, heads of state, that sort of thing. I’d imagine you have conversations that go something like this, ‘If Trump wins again, and he’s president again, what should I do to prepare myself, my country, for what the world will look like under American leadership, with Donald Trump at the helm?’ Broad strokes, what is the advice that you would give, generically, whether it’s, you know, Macron, you know, go down a list.

GRENELL: I think it’s pretty simple, and I do get this question a lot, not just from world leaders, but from all sorts of people and the media, constantly asking, ‘What is the world going to be like if Trump wins?’ I push back and I just say, You know. You saw him for four years. I believe that when America puts itself first, that the world benefits, because we are not a nation that conquers and takes. We are a nation that establishes rule of law, respect, democracy, capitalism. Those rules are what everybody wants. They don’t always abide by them, but those are the international rules that are the best, that make the best system. I’m really proud of America when we put ourselves first because we establish rules that benefit everybody else. America First doesn’t meet America alone. It means we create a system that’s fair, and then there’s kind of the coalition of the willing on different issues.”

Matt Mowers, founding board member of the EU-US Forum and former Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, spoke about Brussels bureaucrats ignoring the will of European voters who demanded change at the EU:

“The problem is this: Brussels is still ignoring the will of the voters, because they refuse to actually change any of the leadership that is emanating out of Brussels, despite the fact that the voters of Europe and the European Union sent a loud and clear message of a new direction. That they wanted a direction that involved stronger border controls, decentralized control so people could live their lives, a protection of free speech… they’ve ignored that because they want to hold on to the political power.”

Ambassador Richard Grenell called Kamala Harris “the most radical nominee America has ever seen:”

Kamala Harris is by far the most woke Democrat in California. She is radical by her own words. She’s questioned red meat, she doesn’t think we should have read meat because it’s bad for the environment. She is on video saying ‘You got to be woke. You actually got to be really woke. You got to be more woke than anybody else.’ She’s on video saying, ‘I want to ban fracking. I want to get rid of ICE, cops: Don’t help on the streets.’ She’s literally the most radical nominee America has ever seen. She’s a San Francisco radical.”

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WASHINGTON —The EU-US Forum,  a nonprofit organization that shines a light on the harmful policies coming out of the EU in order to stop them from spreading to the US, today launched a six-figure paid media campaign urging citizens to demand change to European Union policies on free speech, immigration, taxes, and regulation. The campaign will run across EU member states Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands from Monday, June 3 to Wednesday, June 5.The ad media campaign includes billboards, mobile billboard trucks, and 2D projections on famous architecture in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Rome. 

This is the fifth ad campaign the EU-US Forum has run in Europe, bringing its total ad spending to over $750,000 there since March. 

The initiative comes after new polling released last week showed EU citizens are becoming increasingly concerned with illegal immigration, the cost of living, high taxes, excessive regulations, and government censorship. The EU-US Forum/Tyson Group polling results suggest EU citizens are increasingly looking for conservative policy solutions.

Messages of the ads include:

• • “Too many taxes. Too much environmental regulation. Free Germany from these economic shackles. Demand change at the EU”
  • “EU immigration policies are making you less safe”
  • “Demand free speech. Demand change at the EU.”

BACKGROUND:

• The EU-US Forum previously launched a $250,000 paid media campaign in Rome, Italy that took aim at the far-left policy agenda of the EU. The ads ran on billboards in train stations, in key Italian newspapers, on social media platforms, and in the sky via airplane in Rome and read:
  •  “EU Policies Are Putting Western Civilization at Risk…Le politiche EU stanno mettendo a rischio la Civiltà occidentale”
  •   “EU Immigration Policies Are Making You Less Safe…Le politiche EU sull’immigrazione, ti stanno rendendo meno sicuro”
• The paid media campaign in Italy also coincided with the organization’s inaugural event in Rome with American influencers, policy leaders, and media personalities who joined with European conservative policy leaders for a discussion about the danger of the far-Left policies emerging from the EU and how they can work together to fight back.
• The EU-US forum also deployed paid media campaigns in Hungary, the Netherlands, and Germany earlier this spring. 
• The EU-US Forum is led by multiple former Trump administration officials. Matt Mowers, former Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, serves as the Founding Board Member and Joseph Grogan, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council serves as a Senior Advisor.

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The EU-US Forum, a newly formed nonprofit organization launched to shine light on the harmful policies coming out of the EU to stop them from spreading to the US, hosted a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday morning to explore migration policy in the EU and the similar issues the United States and Europe are experiencing related to border security.

The panel was moderated by The Rubin Report’s Dave Rubin and included multiple former Trump administration officials. The panelists repeatedly blasted Joe Biden’s open borders agenda and discussed how far-left leaders in Brussels are pursuing the same failed policies abroad.

The panelists were:

• Matt Mowers, Founding Board Member of the EU-US Forum and Former Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of State

• Joe Grogan, Senior Advisor of the EU-US Forum and Former Director of the Domestic Policy Council of the United States

• Chad Wolf, Former Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and America First Policy Institute Executive Director, Chief Strategy Officer, and Center For Homeland Security & Immigration Chair

• Kara Frederick, Director of Tech Policy at The Heritage Foundation

• James Carafano, Foreign Policy Expert at The Heritage Foundation

They also touched on polling released by the EU-US Forum earlier this week that showed Europeans are yearning for conservative policy solutions ahead of their EU elections next week (June 6-9) and as EU member states struggle with the cost of living, illegal immigration, government censorship, and food production issues.

Watch the full panel by clicking HERE and view some of the highlights below.

Dave Rubin —

The immigration topic has become something that I talk about on the show all the time, I’m very interested in. And I would say, especially in light of some of the world events, probably post-October 7th, it’s something that everybody should be thinking about because we need to know who is in our country. It’s really as simple as that.

You can’t have a country if you don’t have borders. I think our European friends, and we’ll get into this in just a bit, our European friends are really realizing that you know, 10 years post allowing millions and millions of people in, they now have cultural issues, they have crime issues, and they have social service issues and a litany of other problems.

Matt Mowers —

DAVE RUBIN: You guys have put out some polling recently showing that really the number one issue for people in Europe right now is the immigration issue. How do you think that — well, first off, I take it, you’re not surprised by that. But how do you think it will affect the upcoming election?

MATT MOWERS: That’s gonna have a dramatic impact. And it’s, you know, primarily driven by immigration, but really a lot of the issues which are the cornerstone of what we focus on. I mean, you asked about government censorship. We asked the question of, and we polled in five countries, by the way, we were in Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. And we asked the question, ‘Are you more concerned today than you were previously about government censorship?’ Over 60% of respondents in most of the countries said, ‘Yes.’ We asked, ‘Are you concerned that radical policies on restrictions and regulations on energy is going to be a national security issue?’ something that we have the same discussion right here in the United States today when we talk about a ban on LNG and a whole number of other issues, over 60% said, ‘Yes.’ We then said, ‘Do you believe there needs to be stronger controls on border security? And are you concerned about illegal migration?’ Over 75% in almost every single country said, ‘Yes.’ In fact, the only country where it’s a little bit lower, and was still in the high 60s was Italy, and you actually have an ascendant Conservative Right, trying to make some changes right now in immigration already there. And so what illuminates to us and you look at then support levels for political parties, there’s an ascendant Right today, in part because of the policies of these issues. They know that the European Union, they know that many of the governments in their own countries have failed to address these core issues around individual liberty and the security around border control. And so they’re looking for a change.

Joe Grogan —

The Elites for too long lied to their populations about what they were doing, and the consequences of what they were doing, and tried to convince people to trust them, that there were no cultural differences, there would be no increase in crime, that this was, you know, consistent with values, the European values, American values. Well, you know, law and order is consistent with European values. It’s consistent with American values. And what we see now is the tolerance of those populations has just run out.

The dependency upon social service programs, the crime, the rise in lawlessness, both here in the United States, this absurd situation of luxury hotels in New York City being filled up, you know, petitions being delivered to the mayor of Denver with demands on the part of immigrants, you think about the libertarian wonderland that the United States was in 1924 versus all the social services we have available now and all the demands and the tremendous large asset the Biden administration has put in place to entice people to come here. I think that the populations have, the general populations have just had enough of being lied to, and their generosity of spirit has finally broken and they have to have this stop because their quality of life has deteriorated so much and their faith in elected leaders to address this honestly, has been exhausted.

Chad Wolf —

I mean, look, countries that — leaders and policymakers that love their country, want to secure their country, want to have national sovereignty, these are not extreme positions. You know, if you go back 20, 25 years ago, even probably less, these were positions that most politicians here in the US and elsewhere embraced. It’s only because I think the Left and the Progressive Party have gone so far left that they’ve tried to paint, look, if you want to have some control over your borders if you want to understand who’s coming into the country, that you want to actually vet people coming into your country, understand where they’re going, understand what the value is that they provide to the country that they’re coming. These are not radical positions. But of course, if you are for those, you get painted as being radical. So what I say to that is, yes, I’m radical. I’m going to embrace that all day every day. Because, again, and Matt talked about the polling I think if you look at a majority of Americans or EU folks, right? They want that this is what they are craving right now. And it could be a reaction to the far Left and the Progressive [Party] of where they’ve taken those different countries over the last three years here in the US, or it could just be this is common sense.

Kara Frederick —

You know, on a personal note, my grandmother’s from Mexico, my grandfather is of Latin American extraction, El Salvador. And there used to be the whole assimilation, integration, you know, adopting legitimate American values. And at this point, and it goes with the terrorism issue and the counterterrorism apparatus that should be working against this, at this point, you have people come in and sort of say, ‘No, I’m gonna retain everything about the country that I voluntarily left, and bring it over here instead of embedding within the fabric and the social fabric of America as well.’ And I think we saw that in Europe, you know, I remember listening to those sob stories from the BBC, of all the migrant boats in the Mediterranean.

And, you know, even me with my background, it was 2014. I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, you know, like, help the people out.’ And yet, we’re getting reporting out of West Palm Beach, saying someone claiming asylum was trying to lure an 11-year-old — did manage to do it, and they’re committing crime after crime. You have reports, way back when there was reporting that Venezuela was opening up its prisons and letting them come over here. And now Daily Wire is saying, ‘Yeah, there’s a drop in crime in Venezuela.’ And correlation does not always equal causation. But this matters, and it matters to our security situation. So the more that we can expose this, the better but we’re still not there yet. The problem is only growing.

James Carafano —

Part of the problem, why it’s hard to close the deal is because it’s really hard to convince people that the strategy in here is a real thing. Because the real strategy is really very simple. It’s to create a right of global migration, that anybody in the world can move anybody in the world they want. Because the consequence of that is, is that national governments would be overwhelmed and unable to control that. And then the response to that is we would just have global governance. Now, that’s, that is really the agenda. It’s hard to convince people that that’s true because it just sounds so fantastic. But here’s the proof of that is look at how the — let’s just look at the United States and put Europe aside for a second. But look at how American politics has changed over the last 30 years. 30 years ago, immigration was the third rail of politics, you cannot get any Democrat or any Republican on any stage to debate this. And the reason for that was, is immigration was demographically was different all over the country. Everybody had different concerns, and it was like, just don’t go there. It’s just bad politics. And then the Democratic Party then says, ‘Well, this is an opportunity for amnesty’ right?

But if you remember, like 20 years ago, the Democratic Party in the United States said, ‘We want a secure border.’ They voted for the Secure Fence Act, and this was the deal, give us amnesty, and we will, we will secure the border. And today, you cannot find a Democrat that believes that securing the border is valid. And so what has driven that massive shift in policy direction? And it is top-down. And the reality is, if you’re on the Left, you have to look in the mirror and say, ‘Dude, I’ve been played.’ That they’re not trying to be nice to immigrants. They’re not trying to be more humanitarian, they’re not trying to give us more workers to help with our economy. They’re actually driving an agenda that’s actually going to hurt me as an American.

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WASHINGTON — The EU-US Forum, a nonprofit organization that launched to shine a light on the harmful policies coming out of the EU in order to stop them from spreading to the US, released a memo detailing the results of an eye-opening public opinion survey conducted by the Tyson Group in five European Union member states (France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal). 

The EU-US Forum/Tyson Group poll results suggest strong dissatisfaction with current European leadership and a shift toward conservative policy solutions. The top issues for the European citizens surveyed are the cost of living, the economy/unemployment, and migration. The survey was fielded as these issues are top of mind for Euorpeans who will head to the polls in two weeks to vote in the EU’s parliamentary elections. 

Click HERE to view the memo in full.

Alex Alvarado, Tyson Group Vice President, said:

“The surveys fielded earlier this month make clear that EU citizens are yearning for changes in their governments and the policies they pursue. There is a strong negative sentiment towards the direction the EU is headed and the leadership in various countries. This phenomenon is driving the uptick in support conservative parties saw in each of our surveys.

EU citizens are struggling financially and blame the high taxes and excessive energy regulations that are being pursued by their home governments and in Brussels. The backlash in Europe, however, is not just limited to the economy. Respondents are also worried about the expansion of government censorship and the inability of their leaders to secure their borders. Our data suggests a vast conservative shift is well under way in some of the largest countries in the European Union.”

Download the full memo HERE.

Notable findings include: 

• Economic anxiety driven by cost of living and taxes

• • • Across all five countries surveyed, one of the most pressing concerns for respondents is the cost of living. In Portugal, 75% of respondents identify the cost of living as one of the three most critical issues facing their country, closely followed by France (65%), the Netherlands (61%), Germany (57%), and Italy (55%).
    • A common policy that European citizens blame for their difficult financial situations is excessive taxation. A staggering 73% of Italian respondents think they are paying too much in taxes, followed by Portugal (69%), Netherlands (52%), Germany (51%), and France (44%).

• A shifting desire for conservative governing philosophy

• • • The respondents in the majority of the countries polled do not think the EU is headed in the right direction under its current left-wing leadership. The trend is most pronounced in the Netherlands (24% think the EU is headed in the right direction – 49% wrong direction), followed by Italy, (29%-44%), and France (32%-44%).

• Low approval ratings highlighting a backlash against current governance

• • • Leadership approval ratings across the surveyed countries also highlight a general dissatisfaction with current governance. In France, President Macron and Prime Minister Attal face high disapproval rates of 62% and 51%, respectively. Germany’s Chancellor Scholz also encounters a 61% disapproval rate, reflecting citizens’ frustration with their leaders’ handling of economic issues.
    • In Italy, Prime Minister Meloni’s approval is notably low at 36%, while in the Netherlands, Prime Minister Rutte’s disapproval stands at 52%. Portugal’s Prime Minister Costa faces a similar situation, with 49% disapproving of his performance.

• Serious concerns about illegal immigration

• • • Illegal migration is a significant issue for respondents in all surveyed countries, highlighting growing concerns over migration policies and their impact on national security, economy, and social stability. 

• • • 76% of French, 76% of Germans, 76% of Dutch, 63% of Italians, and 77% of Portuguese respondents agreed that “countries should impose harder border controls to reduce the flood of illegal migrants coming into Europe.”

• Rising fears over government censorship

• • • When asked if they agree with the statement, “I am more worried today than I was a decade ago about government censorship of my ideas,” a substantial number of participants expressed that they agreed: France 65%, Italy 63%, Portugal 57%, the Netherlands 51%, and Germany 46%.

• A Call to reinvigorate domestic agriculture

• • • When asked to agree or disagree with the statement, “We must reestablish domestic food production and encourage farming within our borders,” the responses were overwhelmingly positive, indicating a widespread recognition of the importance of local agriculture: In Portugal 89% of respondents agreed, followed by France 85%, Germany 85%, Italy 74%, and the Netherlands 72%.

• Feeling that excessive regulations threaten economic and national security

• • Germany 62%, France 60%, The Netherlands 55%, Portugal 54%, and Italy 46% agreed with the statement, “Excessive energy regulations threaten our economic and national security.” 

Background

• The EU-US Forum is a new nonprofit recently launched to shine a light on the harmful policies coming out of the European Union in order to stop them from spreading to the United States and the rest of the world. 
• The EU-US Forum is led by multiple former Trump administration officials. Matt Mowers, former Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, serves as the Founding Board Member and Joseph Grogan, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council serves as a Senior Advisor.
• Throughout the spring, EU-US Forum ran a six-figure ad campaign taking aim at the far-left policy agenda of the EU. This included campaigns in:
  • Rome, Italy with ads that said “EU Policies Are Putting Western Civilization at Risk.”
  • Budapest, Hungary during CPAC with ads that read “Demand Change in the European Union.” 
  • Maastricht, Netherlands during the Maastricht Debate with the message: “Demand Borders. Demand Free Speech. Demand Change at the EU.”

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BERLIN, Germany — The EU-US Forum, a nonprofit organization that shines a light on the harmful policies coming out of the EU in order to stop them from spreading to the US, today announced a major paid media effort throughout Germany targeting the proposal by the German Transport minister’s to ban weekend driving and set new speed limits to meet climate goals.

The campaign will consist of billboards, mobile billboard trucks, and other marketing on and around the Autobahn, as well as throughout the city of Berlin.

This effort in Germany is part of a broader six-figure campaign across Europe that began last week. The EU-US Forum previously deployed similar tactics urging citizens to demand change to the European Union’s speech and immigration policies. The organization targeted the EU Commission president candidate debate at Maastricht University in the Netherlands on Monday night with billboards, mobile billboards, and digital ads. It also had mobile billboards bracketing CPAC Hungary in Budapest last Friday.

The campaign in Germany will run from Saturday, May 4 to Wednesday, May 8 and the creative will read:

English: “Pump the Brakes: Stop the Leftists’ Weekend Driving Bank”

German: “Bremst die Ampel aus: Kein Fahrverbot am Wochenende” 

• Translated to: “Slow down, Social Democrats. No driving ban on weekends. 

The ads target the German Transport minister’s proposal to ban driving on Saturday and Sunday in Germany and set new speed limits to limit their carbon footprint. The European Conservative said Transport Minister Volker Wissing warned that “comprehensive and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays” are being considered in relation to failed attempts to set emission cuts per sector under the Climate Protection Act.

BACKGROUND:

• The EU-US Forum previously launched a $250,000 paid media campaign in Rome, Italy that took aim at the far-left policy agenda of the EU. The ads ran on billboards in train stations, in key Italian newspapers, on social media platforms, and in the sky via airplane in Rome and read:
  • “EU Policies Are Putting Western Civilization at Risk…Le politiche EU stanno mettendo a rischio la Civiltà occidentale”
  • “EU Immigration Policies Are Making You Less Safe…Le politiche EU sull’immigrazione, ti stanno rendendo meno sicuro”
• The paid media campaign in Italy also coincided with the organization’s inaugural event in Rome with American influencers, policy leaders, and media personalities who joined with European conservative policy leaders for a discussion about the danger of the far-Left policies emerging from the EU and how they can work together to fight back.
• The EU-US Forum is led by multiple former Trump administration officials. Matt Mowers, former Senior White House Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, serves as the Founding Board Member and Joseph Grogan, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council serves as a Senior Advisor.

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