The Foundation who thinks for Trump
The Heritage Foundation is a powerful organization that we do not talk about much in Europe. However, this working and reflection group (think tank) has considerable importance. He is at the origin of the policy of dismantling of the State implemented since January in the United States by Donald Trump and his nearby circle. For example, what billionaire Elon Musk defeated during his brief lap in Washington was dictated by a roadmap established not by him – as he claimed – but by this influential foundation. It is not only a question for this influence organ to modify the functioning of the United States, but to change the very identity of this country. Its president Kevin Roberts frequently welcomes the fact that since Trump returned to business ” The United States is experiencing its second revolution He says whoever wants to hear it.
Europe in the viewfinder
The Heritage Foundation also developed a roadmap aimed at the European Union (EU). To constitute this interference program, the Heritage Foundation first established close links with two conservative and Eurosceptic working groups: the Mathias Corvinus college (Hungary) and theThe order of legal institute (Poland). This tripartite collaboration gave rise to a draft radical EU reform entitled “The great update: to restore the sovereignty of the Member States in the twenty-first century” (The Great Reset: Restoring Member State Sovereignty in the 21st Century).
Roadmap
This plan was presented last March in Washington and validated in fact by the American presidency. The objective is simple: to dismantle the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the EU, reduce them to technical bodies without political power and, finally, rename the European Union “European Community of Nations” (ECN). The ultimate goal of this depotntialization of Europe is to return to the functioning of the EU in 1957: to subject it to the primacy of national law and propose to its members “à la carte” integration.
Climato-negationism
The first European projects that could pay the lobbying work of this foundation in Brussels are those concerning the climate cause. Indeed, the Heritage Foundation is an openly climate-negationist organ, it is one of its foundations. While the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella has just obtained the strategic post of rapporteur of the European text on the climatic objectives for 2040, he is a target of choice for this organization. Within European nationalist rights, French Bardella is one of those who resist the most at the call of the Trumpist Sirens. At the threshold of power in his country, he is one of those who would have the most to lose. But the strike force of the Heritage Foundation could end up influencing, if not on him, at least on his entourage within the Patriots for Europethe political group he presides over to the European Parliament.
From Brussels with love
Without official premises or legal status in Brussels, the Heritage Foundation multiplies informal contacts with leading MEPs and decision -makers. Among the most sulphurous figures encountered recently by certain lobbytes of the Heritage Foundationwe count the Hungarian Ernö Schaller-Barross or the Czech Filip Turek. Both are members, like Jordan Bardella, of the group Patriots for Europe. Turek, climatosceptic, follower of Nazi greetings and collectors of objects with the image of the third Reich, perfectly embodies this new generation of European populists who directly take their orders from Washington.
Political dismantling
The Heritage Foundation Also weaves influence relationships with smoother profiles, on the basis of a policed discourse and an inventory in eleven points that can agree a less radical panel of European decision -makers. Among these points, the main ones are: “The EU has become an institution that mixes with everything at the expense of national sovereignties. (..) The European Court of Justice continues to extend its jurisdiction (..) The European Parliament is on the ability of states to govern independently, etc. ». With this fairly banal speech, the Heritage Foundation Ratisse broad and tries to rally opponents of more or less extreme Europe under a single strategic supervision, his own. It’s this project Franconia of a Europe of nations, managed by Washington, that the Heritage Foundation tries to impose on Europe.
And tomorrow?
Europe has emerged weakened by the episode of customs duties that have been applied since August 1 to 15% of the value of the majority of European goods exported to the United States since August 1. Will Europe as a political aon can resist the project of political weakening piloted by Washington? It is too early to say, but it is clear that Donald Trump’s weakening on the inner level could offer the EU a welcome respite.
Julien Bal