In the RN, an unacknowledged attraction to Trumpism and a progressive ideological alignment | EUROtoday

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During the “victory celebration”, in Mormant-sur-Vernisson (Loiret), on June 9, 2025, celebrating the score of the National Rally in the 2024 European elections and the creation of a group in the European Parliament.

Communication coaching, economics and geopolitics programs, “cultural battle” recommendation and tasting of native wines: at the start of December 2025, two organizations linked to Trumpism and Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister, introduced collectively for 3 days a couple of dozen European and American nationalist activists, for a boot camp for patriots (“patriot training camp”), in a conference middle an hour and a half drive from Budapest. Among this assortment of admirers of the MAGA (Make America Great Again) motion was mingled a thirty-year-old with a neat beard, unknown to most people, however a necessary pawn of the National Rally (RN): Thibaut François.

This former deputy from the North (2022-2024) is the diplomat of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, the person of all their European networks, who vigorously leads the imposing RN delegation in Brussels. He embodies the French excessive proper on this studious boot camp beneath the aegis of the Conservative Partnership Institute, the highly effective incubator of “America first” (the “America First” doctrine). The co-organizers are an Italian suppose tank near Matteo Salvini’s League, the Machiavelli Center for political and strategic research, and the Center for Fundamental Rights, a suppose tank near the Orban authorities and whose motto – “God, family, homeland” – expresses the intentions.

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