{"id":425588,"date":"2025-05-05T14:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/05\/australia-elezioni-albanese-ue-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:34:38","slug":"labor-pm-albanese-re-elected-in-australia-eu-credits-the-trump-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/05\/labor-pm-albanese-re-elected-in-australia-eu-credits-the-trump-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor PM Albanese re-elected in Australia; EU credits the ‘Trump effect’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – After Canada<\/a>, Australia. Two historic US\u00a0allies re-elected\u00a0center-left parties to\u00a0government precisely in an anti-Trump mood. In Canberra,\u00a0outgoing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese staged a comeback <\/strong>and defeated the Coalition, the center-right liberal polity led by Peter Dutton, which paid for an excessive proximity to the American tycoon. From Brussels, European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa<\/strong> said he was “convinced that our strategic and bilateral cooperation will continue to strengthen.” At the same time,\u00a0 Commission President Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong> said, “Europeans and Australians are not just friends — we’re mates.”<\/p>\n

Analysts have dubbed it the ‘Trump effect,’ already after Mark Carney’s victory in Canada<\/strong>, against all expectations\u00a0that gave – until a few weeks before the vote – the leader of the Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, as the\u00a0favorite. If in Ottawa, the April 28 election turned into a kind of referendum on the controversial US president and his threats of annexation, in Canberra, too, the Trump-driven tariff war<\/strong>\u00a0seems to have played a decisive role<\/a>, exacerbating an election campaign focused on cost of living and economic uncertainties. The United States has imposed reciprocal tariffs of 10 percent and 25 percent\u00a0on steel and aluminum imports from Oceanic countries.\u00a0Dutton, the Liberal Party of Australia leader who had called Trump “a great thinker,” paid the price, even losing the seat he had held since 2004.<\/p>\n

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Australian liberal Coalition leader, Peter Dutton (photo: David Gray\/Afp)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thus, if polls, before Trump took office, gave the Conservatives a lead of at least 10 percentage points, projections<\/a> of election results overturn everything: in the lower house of the Australian Parliament, where the majority threshold is\u00a076 seats, Albanese’s Labor secured at least 85 elected representatives<\/strong>, the Liberal Coalition not even 40. “Today, the Australian people voted for Australian values: for fairness, aspiration, and opportunity for all; for the strength to show courage in adversity and kindness to those in need,” the Italian-born premier said in his victory speech.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Von der Leyen immediately appealed to Albanese, asking him to “seize this moment of stability to deepen our cooperation” to “expand trade, investment and work to promote our shared democratic values and a free, open Indo-Pacific.” On the other hand, clearly, Canberra, dependent on Washington primarily in the economic and security spheres<\/strong>, has no intention of cutting ties with the US administration.\u00a0The prime minister announced today that he had a “warm and positive conversation” with Trump, expressing his intention to travel to the United States as his first foreign mission in his second term.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to @AlboMP<\/a> and his party on their victory in the Australian federal election.<\/p>\n

Europeans and Australians are not just friends \u2013 we\u2019re mates.<\/p>\n

Let us seize this moment of stability to deepen our cooperation.<\/p>\n

Together, we can expand trade, investment and work to\u2026<\/p>\n

– Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) May 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The same outcome was already seen a week ago in Canada, with the ruling center-left party, revitalized by Trump’s threats to economic stability, leading to an unhoped-for comeback at the polls. Brussels congratulates him and appeals, “Let’s seize this moment to deepen our cooperation”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":425535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[25816,31120,27994],"class_list":["post-425588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-anthony-albanese-en","tag-australia-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425604,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425588\/revisions\/425604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}