With the announcement to establish a Foundation in Europe, has provided the American right-wing populist uproar. Since then, little has happened. Elapsed before all the Eastern Europeans, the Lust? A Track Search.
Anyone who flies in the United States from a political office, can be soft landing. The strong Foundation allows the money at the wealthy sponsors to collect and track as a privateer a political Agenda. This path, Stephen Bannon, the former chief strategist of the US President, Donald Trump seems to be just. In the summer, the right-wing populist made headlines when he announced that he wanted to hook up with a nationalist Foundation in the European policy.
This weekend is Bannon again in Italy, spotted, and on Monday at a Meeting with the Czech President, Miloš Zeman.
Perhaps the Know-How to keep how to influence voters through social media, in Europe. Stephen Bannon was Vice President of the Board of management of data analysis-Agency “Cambridge Analytica”, before he took over the election campaign of the current US President, Trump.
Bannon was quoted as saying after his visit to the Congress of the Italian nationalist party, Fratelli d’Italia in the European media, so that he would accompany the election campaign to the European Parliament in 2019.
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But a lot has happened since then. In the case of an important target audience it is particularly quiet when it comes to Stephen Bannon and the Brussels-based Foundation “The Movement” (“movement”): In the national populist-ruled countries of Central and Eastern Europe radio silence in the Causa “Bannon entert Europe”.
“The movement” was in the media and politics in Poland, the Czech Republic or Slovakia, and Poland, Hungary has so far no issue. At least not until Bannons visit to the Prague castle on Monday. There, he met a Czech-born German politician of the right-wing populist AfD. Of course, common photos were shot, and in the social media. Apparently, it was mainly about one thing: to produce headlines.
Since the controversial Helsinki summit of US President Donald Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin the right to national in Central and Eastern Europe seem to go the distance with like-minded people from the United States, especially of the government in Warsaw. The convergence of right-wing circles in the USA Putin is suspicious of many poles. The Polish government party law and justice (PiS) and its leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, traditionally rely on a distant relationship to Moscow.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán leaves currently of the impression that the desired shoulder-to-shoulder with right-wing European politicians such as France’s Marine le Pen and, above all, the Italian Minister of the interior Matteo Salvini, especially a concluded He should bring:.
20,000 Euro fee for a Bannon-speech
Protect the help of a Stephen Bannon could disrupt it. Perhaps the Links to the right of the US ideologues to Budapest are meant to be anyway, far less intense than many. Bannons contact person in Hungary, the Orbán-Familiar Mária Schmidt, the Director of the Museum “house of terror”, the crimes of the Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe and especially Hungary on the topic.
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She had invited the former chief strategist of the US President, Trump in may for a conference on the “future of Europe”. In the Budapest coffee houses, the rumor is circulating that Bannon had received for his speech to 20,000 Euro fee. The conference was funded from the Hungarian tax funds.
Some sources claim that Bannons Hungary-relationship are based on a former assistant to Donald trump: Sebastian Gorka, a US citizen with a British-Hungarian roots. The 1970-born Gorka appeared on the right-wing conservative US channel Fox News as security Analyst. Along with Bannon Gorka was part of the “Make America Great Again”-the election campaign team of Donald Trump and took off after the election victory to the White house and then quickly again.
Foundation, founded as early as 2017
“The movement” was founded, as we Heard, back in January of 2017, and not last summer – and not from Bannon, but from the Brussels lawyer and politician, Mischaël Modrikamen. The represents the in Parts of extreme right-wing party “Parti Populaire”, the arrival in Belgium, the country, but especially the voices in the French-speaking part of the country, Wallonia receives.
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In an Interview with Deutsche Welle, Modrikamen said he had searched in 2017 the contact to Bannon and the transition team Trumps that have prepared the collection of the election winner to the White house. He had written a letter and suggested “that ‘the movement’ throughout the world should compete,” Modrikamen. “But then, you have not really responding.”
Only this summer, he was then approached by Nigel Farage, the initiators of the Brexit campaign and MEPs for the European enemy of the British party UKIP. “Then we met for lunch in London.” With Stephen Bannon, on the other hand, resulted with the announcement to establish a Foundation in Brussels, for headlines.
The goal of “The movement” it says Modrikamen, “to coordinate and to be a compound of the populist movements to develop common positions.”
First Europe and then the whole world?
Now wanted to focus the Foundation’s first to Europe, “and perhaps also active around the world,” says the right-wing populist. He think of countries such as Israel, India, Australia, the countries of Latin America, or Japan.
The money will collect is the Foundation for private people. “American donors, but also from elsewhere,” the Belgian lawyer.
At the presentation of the plans in July, it was said that they wanted to take the George Soros founded”Open Society”foundations for a model. The American-Hungarian philanthropist and former exchange traders supported in Eastern Europe initiatives, the work for open and democratic civil societies. “The movement” is to be positioned as a conservative-nationalist opponents of the liberal Soros foundations.
Whether or not, yet someone is willing to donate to “The movement” of money, is unclear. You ask Modrikamen to the donors of the Foundation, he will be short: “Bannon will take care of it, but we cannot talk yet about our sources.”
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That Bannon is now trying once again to produce headlines, as on Monday in Prague, is like a promotional tour for potential sponsors.
In the meantime, especially an Eastern European law in Europe, populist particularly active: The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Most recently, he showed that in the EU Parliament, in the vote, whether against Hungary to a proceeding under article 7 of the EU constitutional Treaty set in motion – because of the ongoing attacks by the governments of Orbán against the rule of law in the country. Theoretically Hungary could lose its voting rights in the EU. In his speech, Viktor Orbán called the deputies. The allegations were all “lies and inventions”. Hungary will alone be punished for it, that it wanted to accommodate migrants. With his speech to the Budapest head of the government advertising could make for his right-wing populist politics and the idea of an “illiberal” society in Europe. He had a much greater stage as Stephen Bannon.
Cooperation: Martin Gak