Washington has thrown its weight behind extreme right-wing political groups across Europe, including Germany's Alternative for Germany party, which a comprehensive federal review concluded has ties to the neo-Nazi movement. Party members have been found to have downplayed the Holocaust and advocated race-based views of German identity.
Anthony Luzzatto Gardner, former US ambassador to the EU, described the shift in Foreign Affairs, "Hvylya" reports. The final version of the 2025 National Security Strategy suggested that the US government would support far-right, anti-EU parties across the continent.
The administration has also gone after EU officials involved in digital regulation. Washington banned former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton from entering the United States at the end of 2025, claiming he helped pass two digital laws designed to "coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints." Breton had acted in an official capacity as part of a commission that takes collective decisions, and a democratically elected parliament approved both regulations.
The National Security Strategy accused Europe of inviting "civilizational erasure" through mass immigration and falling birthrates. Gardner called this strange, noting that immigration policy is largely a matter for individual member states rather than EU institutions. Several member states have already implemented repatriation programs, and the EU has signed agreements with North African and western Balkan countries to stem illegal migration. Europe's foreign-born population share, despite recent increases, remains lower than that of the United States.
Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution completed its review of the Alternative for Germany in 2025. Yet eighty years after liberating Germany from Nazism, Washington now opposes Berlin's right to crack down on a party with documented neo-Nazi connections.
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