{"id":8385,"date":"2026-03-26T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8385"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:12:12","slug":"none-of-trumps-eu-friends-welcomed-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/26\/none-of-trumps-eu-friends-welcomed-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"None of Trump\u2019s EU friends welcomed Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. military strike that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has met with widespread silence or concern across the European Union, with almost no member states offering immediate support. While fringe populist figures like Geert Wilders and Polish President Karol Nawrocki signaled approval or personal ties to the Trump administration, core EU leaders including Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have instead called for urgent de-escalation and a return to international law. Left-wing Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez issued the sharpest rebuke, rejecting the &#8220;unilateral military action&#8221; as a threat to global order, while even traditionally pro-U.S. nations in Eastern Europe remained notably cautious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 1, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/204953\/none-of-trumps-eu-friends-welcomed-iran-war\/\">euobserver.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military strike that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has met with widespread silence or concern across the European Union, with almost no member states offering immediate support. While fringe populist figures like Geert Wilders and Polish President Karol Nawrocki signaled approval or personal ties to the Trump administration, core EU leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8478,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions\/8478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}