Berlin is expressing doubt about the European Union’s ability to withstand the rise of nationalist parties and the pressure from the Trump administration. This unprecedented skepticism in Germany has raised fears of lasting weakening, or even the gradual marginalization, of Europe as it exists today.
That’s categorically untrue.
No matter how good your leadership is, the far right can literally exploit ANYTHING negative happening.
The 2007/08 market crash was purely down to the US fucking up their own markets and it rippled out of there - but the far right latched onto it and immediately blamed the EU and visa foreign workers.
The 2012-2015 immigration crisis was also thanks to the US (specifically their middle Eastern interventionalism), yet the far right managed to grab onto the issue and win serious ground with it - even though the situation was mostly well handled given the circumstances.
The one thing the (far) right does well is taking the truth and twisting it into hateful, fear-mongering rhetoric.