{"id":452094,"date":"2026-05-05T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/05\/05\/la-svezia-svela-i-malumori-ue-su-trump-stanchi-di-leadership-imprevedibile-che-rende-le-cose-difficili\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:56:49","slug":"sweden-flags-eu-discontent-with-trump-tired-of-unpredictable-leadership-that-makes-things-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/05\/05\/sweden-flags-eu-discontent-with-trump-tired-of-unpredictable-leadership-that-makes-things-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden flags EU discontent with Trump: “Tired of unpredictable leadership that makes things difficult”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 There are those in the European Union who are starting to have had enough of the Trump administration. Sweden is certainly one such country, which, in voicing the government\u2019s discontent with the current US president, is also speaking on behalf of others. \u201cI am tired of unpredictable leadership that makes things difficult for everyone<\/strong>,\u201d said the Swedish Finance Minister, Elisabeth Svantesson,<\/strong> on the sidelines of the Ecofin Council<\/a> meeting. She is not referring to\u00a0yet another tariff threat<\/a> but to the US military operations in Iran<\/a> and the resulting crisis<\/a>. \u201cWe don\u2019t really know what the United States wants from Iran; we know that what is happening comes at a cost to Swedish citizens and to everyone,\u201d she laments.<\/p>\n

If Europe is in a difficult situation, then we have Donald Trump to “thank” for it, and Sweden wants to set the record straight regarding responsibilities and the mood around the table. In her statements, Svantesson also draws a clear line between herself and the European Commission and its President, Ursula <\/strong>von der Leyen<\/strong>, who instead held Iran responsible for the crisis<\/a>. Wopke Hoekstra,<\/strong> the Climate Commissioner, invited to take part in the Ecofin Council meeting, acknowledges that the situation is difficult and even more unpredictable: \u201cMy advice is to fasten your seatbelts, because the situation could continue and even worsen.<\/strong>\u201d These are necessary caveats, he explains, because \u201cno one knows exactly what the global economic future will be,\u201d and consequently that of the EU and its eurozone. Admittedly, he concedes, \u201cthe data we have is not encouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike the Swedish government, Hoekstra does not point the finger at anyone, nor does he lash out at the United States under Donald Trump. He merely points out that Europe is a continent with few energy resources and remains\u00a0too dependent on fossil fuel imports; therefore, the problem is not the closure of the Strait of Hormuz but rather the structural weaknesses that need to be overcome. “In the long term,\u00a0we will need more solar power, more nuclear power, and more interconnections,<\/strong>” and, therefore, “a system different from the one we have today,” he observes.<\/p>\n

While the Commission is offering guidance on the way forward, the Cypriot President-in-Office of the Council of the EU is urging caution: “Things are changing by the hour,<\/strong>”\u00a0Makis Keravnos<\/strong>, Cyprus\u2019s Minister of Finance and President-in-Office of the Ecofin Council, noted. In essence, he confirms what his Swedish counterpart and the Climate Commissioner have said: things are difficult. That is why \u201cwe must be careful,\u201d Keravnos warns. \u201cIt is not easy to make projections because everything is moving very quickly,” he pointed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swedish Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson blames the White House for the crisis stemming from the war in the Middle East: “We don\u2019t know what it wants in Iran, but we\u2019re all paying the price.” Hoekstra: “Let\u2019s press ahead with the energy transition”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":452070,"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","show_comment_section":"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":[25705,25707],"tags":[27394,31856,28508,27569,27337,32831,26559,33394,27238],"class_list":["post-452094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-world-politics","tag-chrisi-at","tag-donald-trump-en","tag-elisabeth-svantesson-en","tag-iran-in-2","tag-middle-east-en","tag-presidenza-cipriota","tag-swedenat","tag-ue","tag-wopke-hoekstra-and"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452094","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452211,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452094\/revisions\/452211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}