Make Europe Great Again? How the Trump movement is conquering Europe. The transatlantic « new right » alliance: its goals, victories, key actors, and where they meet and how they’re financed.
DIE ALLIANZ DER NEUEN RECHTEN
(The New Right-Wing Alliance)
by Annett Meiritz & Juliane Schäuble
Heyne/PRH Germany, September 2025
JD Vance defends the racist Germany party AfD in a speech in Munich, a right-wing political newcomer from Poland is welcomed in the Oval Office: right-wing parties and lobbyists are growing their international networks faster than ever before, and working both openly and behind the scenes to export Trumpism to Europe – with potentially drastic consequences. Experts are already warning that we could see right-wing populist, anti-EU parties running the majority of European countries by the end of the 2020s. Here, US correspondents Annett Meiritz and Juliane Schäuble reveal how the transatlantic alliance is coming together, as well as its chief goals and key points of resistance. A shocking, eye-opening insight into a rapidly growing threat.
Annett Meiritz has been the Handelsblatt’s DC correspondent since 2017. She previously spent a decade at Spiegel Online, among others as a parliamentary correspondent based in Berlin. She studied history and is a Burns Fellow and alumna of the non-profit Atlantik-Brücke’s young leaders programme. In 2022, she and Juliane Schäuble co-authored « Guns ‘n’ Rosé », a portrait of conservative women in the US.
Juliane Schäuble has been Washington correspondent for Die Zeit since 2025. Before that, she spent twenty years at the Tagesspiegel – among other things heading up the politics desk; for the last seven of those years, she was based in the US, where she wrote for the Tagesspiegel’s US politics newsletter Washington Weekly. She has an MA in political science, and spent a semester at the American University in Washington. She is a member of the White House Foreign Press Group. In 2022, she and Annett Meiritz co-authored « Guns ‘n’ Rosé », a portrait of conservative women in the US.
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