At the height of the crisis between the 27 member states and Washington over the Danish autonomous territory, a survey conducted for the journal Le Grand Continent identified a “Greenland moment” in European public opinion regarding Donald Trump’s United States. According to the latest wave of the Eurobazooka barometer, conducted by the Institut Cluster17 between January 13 and 19, 44% of Europeans believed that the US president is acting like a dictator, and an absolute majority (51%) described him as an “enemy” of Europe. For 64% of those surveyed, US foreign policy – which has been particularly vicious toward member states and European institutions – is now being equated with “recolonization” and “predation.” According to the authors of the study, which was published on January 23, “in just one year of Donald Trump’s presidency, the United States’ status in European opinion has changed.”
A new survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), published on Wednesday, February 11, further supports this analysis, while highlighting the deep fragmentation of European public opinion regarding the MAGA president. This was already the case before the crisis over Greenland, as the survey was carried out in November 2025 across 13 countries, including France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Poland. According to the ECFR, most Europeans “recognize that the US is no longer an ally.” “Across Europe, perceptions of the superpower have further deteriorated since November 2024, when Trump was re-elected,” the think tank noted.
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