This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel with my colleague Katrina Vandenhovel, writing with Robert Borsage,

a summary of the European parties.

If you have not kept up, and who can?

My scorecards all marked up.

It's no, it's useless.

The votes go this way or that way, but there is clearly a trend for

the, for the populist right or the far right parties. How do they see Donald Trump's

administration? In general, in general, Katrina, what I find when I talk to Berlin, when I talk to Moscow, when I talk to London, is befuddled it.

Because they read our headlines and they go, but you elected them by majority rule.

What did you find this time in conversation?

Did you say the fun of it?

Well, we came into a Europe that was still reeling from J.D. Vance's speech in Munich at the Munich Security Forum where there was a sense of being, you know, of being appalled by the lecture of Mr. Vance gave the Europeans assembled.

You know, I personally think the Munich Security Conference should go the way of lullabies.

Just, it's like a marketing for weapons and bad ideas.

I think what disturbs many is that there's no, it's very true, the Trump administration,

very transactional, ready to buy anything that moves, vulgar.

But, you know, there's no sense of collective action. Trump, sort of none of our

business approaches the Trump view, but it's, there's no talk of multilateral cooperation

against the threat of climate change. By the way, climate has become a trigger issue in Europe,

because the yellow vest of people, remember them a few years ago,

they turned to Macron who said, well, this is the existential challenge of our time, climate.

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