While the European population welcomed Donald Trump's return to power in the US in November 2024 with suspicion, a year later, hostile sentiment prevails in Europe, Le Figaro reported today, according to a survey conducted for the French geopolitical studies group Gran Continent in seven European Union (EU) countries.
More than half (51 percent) of residents of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Denmark and Belgium now consider Trump an "enemy of Europe."
Only eight percent of those surveyed see him as a friend, and 39 percent see him as "none of those."
The American president has the most friends in Poland (17 percent) and the most enemies in Spain (58 percent).
The vast majority of respondents (88 percent) believe that Trump does not respect democratic principles - 44 percent say he "has authoritarian tendencies", and the same number believe he "behaves like a dictator".
In his first year in the White House, Trump has threatened the world order that his country has meticulously established for decades.
Hyperactive on the international stage, the American president boasts of ending eight conflicts in one year and regularly presents himself as a president of peace.
But still, Trump has not hesitated to resort to violence, nor to threaten to do so, he has even embraced brutal imperialism, and his latest measure in a series is his obsession with Greenland, according to Figaro.
Regarding the burning issue of Greenland, 84 percent of Europeans surveyed consider Trump's statements "serious."
Although the US president ruled out the use of force to take over the island in Davos, 81 percent of respondents would consider US military intervention in Greenland an "act of war."
The survey was conducted among 7.498 people in seven EU countries, from January 13 to 19.
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