Russian energy giant Gazprom's average daily natural gas supplies to Europe via the TurkStream undersea pipeline increased by 10.3% in May from a month earlier, Reuters calculations showed on Monday.

The dramatic shift has bewildered European officials, who note that the Trump administration itself has been accused of breaching democratic norms.

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While the Maga movement in Europe - translated by Viktor Orban into Mega (Make Europe Great Again) - sounds self-confident, it has also endured setbacks, most recently with the liberal mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan, winning Romania's presidential election.

Karol Nawrocki, a conservative nationalist, narrowly won Poland’s presidency. He is the latest Trump-energized populist to perform strongly in a European poll.

“Let us look to America,” Tocqueville wrote, “not in order to make a servile copy of the institutions that she has established but to gain a clearer view of the polity which will be best for us.” Europeans now have to figure out the future they want for themselves.

The option market makers that dominate US trading are taking a bigger share of volume in Europe. While the tariff-driven market turmoil in April boosted trading on both sides of the Atlantic, Europe remains far behind.

Tesla's sale of new cars in Norway skyrocketed 213% in May from a year ago, bucking a sharp downward trend across Europe.