According to ECR Group Co-Chairman Nicola Procaccini, Donald Trump's election as US President will not significantly change relations between the European Union and the United States.

In a debate on the EU’s future relations with the US in the European Parliament in Brussels, he said: “The US elections will not damage our relations with the European Union; on the contrary, they have exposed the Brussels bubble.”

On the future relations with Washington, he said: “We have to deal with the US government without political bias, because American foreign policy has historically been much more stable than European foreign policy.”

“We need to do our part by strengthening the European pillar of NATO and revitalising our competitiveness without hampering it with the ideological excesses of recent years. In America, a conservative Republican has won because the true revolution of today is to preserve, not to destroy. It’s the same all over the world, including Europe”, he added.

According to Procaccini, many who did not expect Donald Trump’s victory could not understand it. Even now, the detached European left does not want to know the people who voted for him. “In fact, they seem to be repulsed by these people, and they make no effort to hide it”, Procaccini said.

Procaccini also nodded to those long ignored by politics and the media: “The workers in the Rust Belt, the small business owners who fall and get back up, the farmers and ranchers in the rural areas, or the families living in fear in the big cities—cities that have been devastated by drugs and illegal immigration.” For Procaccini, it was those people who made the difference voting for Donald Trump.