4 Nov 2024

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 4 November 2024

Two major opinion polls out this week have revealed who Europeans are hoping will win the US election, but there are big differences in opinions in Western and Eastern Europe.

EU officials are watching the elections closely, with future security and trade policies dependent on the result.

Also, Spanish royals have had insults hurled at them by angry crowds during visits to flood-hit areas in Valencia.

At least 217 people are dead and many unaccounted for.

People push shopping carts along a street covered in mud on October 31, 2024 after flash floods ravaged Paiporta, in Valencia, eastern Spain. - Rescuers raced on October 31, 2024 to find survivors and victims of once-in-a-generation floods in Spain that killed at least 95 people and left towns submerged in a muddy deluge with overturned cars scattered in the streets. About 1,000 troops joined police and firefighters in the grim search for bodies in the Valencia region as Spain started three days of mourning. Up to a year's rain fell in a few hours on the eastern city of Valencia and surrounding region on October 29 sending torrents of water and mud through towns and cities. (Photo by JOSE JORDAN / AFP)

Photo: JOSE JORDAN/AFP