The war started with Iran by the United States and Israel has left the European far right divided and doubtful…

In the first days of the war, the loudest silence came from Hungary’s ruling party… Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has praised Trump as a “peacemaker” for his role in the war in Gaza, neither condemned nor endorsed the attacks on Iran.

Orbán, who is campaigning for re-election on a “pro-peace narrative” and accuses the EU of fuelling the war in Ukraine by supporting Kyiv with money and weapons, has since resolved the dissonance by saying in an interview with Hungary’s ATV that bombing Iran is not a fresh war, but rather the “final elimination and closure of a previous, unresolved focal point”.

The same problem has affected the Italian League…

“We always prefer the diplomatic way”, the League’s head of delegation in the European Parliament Paolo Borchia told Euronews…

“The renewed destabilisation of the Middle East is not in Germany’s interest and must be brought to an end”, said Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla…

Consequences for energy and migration are top of the list also for the far-right Flemish Interest party, which raised the issue in a debate in the Belgian Parliament, recalling the knock-on effects of Western countries’ interventions in Libya and Syria.

Czechia’s ruling ANO party is having similar doubts. According to internal sources, on one side, they do not want to criticise Trump; on the other, they are not keen on blindly following the US and Israel, and especially not into a conflict that could drive up energy costs, a major issue in the country.

The most critical voice comes from the French National Rally (RN), whose leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella had already questioned US raids on Venezuela…

Vincenzo Genovese, Euronews