Trump ate von der Leyen for breakfast, Orbán grumbles – POLITICO

“It wasn’t a deal that President Donald Trump made with Ursula von der Leyen. It was Donald Trump consuming Ursula von der Leyen for breakfast,” Orbán fumed Monday morning on his podcast. The Hungarian prime minister is each a longtime critic of Brussels and its management and a vocal supporter of Trump and his MAGA agenda.

Orbán added that the U.S.-U.K. deal was a lot better than the one the EU received. Hungarian International Minister Péter Szijjártó wrote Monday on X that the deal is “one other signal that Brussels wants new management.” 

Different Euroskeptics — similar to German far-right AfD party leader Alice Weidel and French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen — have additionally slammed the deal, however they aren’t alone. 

“It’s a darkish day when an alliance of free peoples, united to say their values and defend their pursuits, resigns itself to submission,” centrist French Prime Minister François Bayrou wrote on X. 

Nonetheless, many in Europe welcomed Sunday’s deal and the avoidance of a much bigger commerce struggle, hoping it could result in long-awaited commerce stability.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in a statement {that a} no-deal state of affairs would have hit Germany more durable, whereas Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni known as the deal “sustainable.”