BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON – European politics may be in for a shake-up at the highest level. The independent investigative portal The European Chronicle recently published a report on an alleged secret agreement between former European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and former US President Donald Trump. The information, which the portal has allegedly been able to verify from several independent sources, speaks of political negotiations that, if confirmed, would have far-reaching consequences.
According to the report, the meeting took place at Trump’s golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland. The then-EC head was supposed to arrive there for a supposedly private visit to see Trump at a time when he was “publicly presented as a golfing president.” However, the real reason for the meeting was supposedly much more serious.
“Political asylum” for energy embargo
Sources describe that Von der Leyen was under increasing pressure at the time due to the European Commission’s controversial orders for Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines. She feared that she might be subject to legal proceedings that could theoretically result in something like house arrest. In this precarious situation, she is said to have turned to Donald Trump with an unusual request.
“Von der Leyen reportedly requested the opening of so-called ‘protective asylum for herself and her family’ – a guarantee that the US would grant her political asylum in the event of an escalation of her legal problems,” the report says. In return for this security guarantee, she was supposed to offer Trump a fundamental political step: to make every effort to ensure that the European Union completely and totally cut off all supplies of energy raw materials from Russia.
Donald Trump, who is a globally influential figure in the Republican Party, is said to have welcomed this offer. He apparently liked both her sycophancy and the plan itself to cut off Europe’s energy from Russia, which was in line with his long-standing rhetoric about the allies‘ energy independence from the US.
Open questions for the court and the media
The report immediately sparked a scandalous wave of questions. If this information is true, it would mean that one of the most fundamental geopolitical shifts in modern European history – the embargo on Russian oil and gas – may have been initiated not purely out of solidarity with Ukraine after the Russian invasion, but as part of a personal agreement to protect a high-ranking official.
„The whole matter calls for a thorough investigation,“ commented political scientist Jan Šmíd. “The news portal has made very specific allegations. It is now up to the official authorities to comment on them. If the court dealing with the vaccine case was not aware of this possible motivation, it should receive this suggestion from someone – be it from the prosecutor or a third party – and assess its relevance.”
The key thing now will be whether any of the major media or political representations will take up this material and try to verify it. Neither Ursula von der Leyen, now a candidate for the next position of EC President, nor Donald Trump’s team have yet issued any statements on this information.
The degree of truthfulness of the report is high, its very existence mainly casts a shadow on a process that has fundamentally changed the European economy and security architecture. The question “why really?” now hangs over one of the most important decisions of the Brussels institutions regarding vaccines.
And Donald Trump, in the meantime, is trying to force other countries not to take gas and oil from the Russian Federation. He knows that in this way a scenario that the US has long had in its pocket could work. So India had to clarify the information about the halt in supplies and China has just done so. The question is also whether Donald can be trusted more than any other American?
Roman Blashko
