German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his country won’t accept people who “intervene in our democracy”, a day after US Vice President JD Vance criticised European leaders.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/02/15/scholz-germany-wont-accept-people-who-intervene-in-our-democracy

by Curious_Suchit

34 comments

  1. Vance: “But interfering in others’ democracy is an American tradition!”🤷🏼‍♂️

  2. But he doesn‘t want to deport foreign people who want to abolish our democracy.

  3. I really hope that Scholz doesn’t get reelected as the German chancellor. The last thing we need right now is a weak and pathetic leader of the biggest economy within the European Union who doesn’t have courage to deal with Putin properly and will only put obstacles in Ukraine‘s war for their and frankly also our freedom. If Ukraine falls, there is no one going to save us from an all out war with Russia, which unfortunately isn’t unlikely anymore.

  4. Europeans will shit and piss themselves because Vance quite literally said that Europeans shit and piss themselves when people vote a different way, and then in the same breath call for a ban for supposedly “far right parties” (translation: they want to import only 200k people per year instead of 1 million)

  6. He should have told him to fuck off back to freedom fries land.

  8. All of a sudden the Germans don’t appreciate someone being blunt and opinionated.

  9. also scholz: biden is allowed to bomb nordstream, lets be silent about it.

  13. Uhmm.. How about actual repercussions? Talk needs to stop and action needs to happen going forward and this applies to everybody in the EU.

  15. **German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his country won’t accept people who “intervene in our democracy”, a day after US Vice President JD Vance criticised European leaders.**

    In a speech on Saturday morning, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz defended his stance against the far right and said Germany will not accept people who “intervene in our democracy”, a day after US Vice President JD Vance met with the AfD leader and criticised European leaders.

    Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Vance criticised European governments’ approach to democracy and said he fears free speech across the continent is “in retreat”.

    He claimed that many Americans saw in Europe “entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion or, God forbid, vote a different way, or even worse, win an election.”

    Vance said he was not as concerned about Russia or China in terms of Europe’s security as much as he was about a “threat from within – a retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”

    On the sidelines of the event, Vance met with Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, nine days before the German election.

    In a longstanding stance to shun the extreme right in a country scarred by Nazism, mainstream German parties say they won’t work with the AfD.

    Scholz reaffirmed that “never again” is a historical mandate that Germany must and wants to uphold – never again fascism, racism, or war of aggression. He sharply criticised the AfD, noting that some members of the party had referred to Nazi crimes as a mere “bird shit” in history. He made it clear that the principle of never again is incompatible with supporting or aligning with the AfD.

    Scholz further responded to Vance’s comments by saying “Germany is a very strong democracy, and as a strong democracy, we are absolutely clear that the extreme right should be out of political control and out of political decision making processes, and that there will be no cooperation with them.”

    “We really reject any idea of cooperation between parties, other parties and this extreme right parties.”

    Alluding to rules in Germany that restrict hate speech, he said that “free speech in Europe means that you are not attacking others in ways that are against legislation and laws we have in our country.”

    The back and forth between Scholz and Vance came as European leaders have been trying to make sense of a tough new line from Washington on issues including democracy and Ukraine’s future, as the Trump administration continues to upend trans-Atlantic conventions that have been in place since after World War II.

  17. at least not when they have a different opinion them him…..

    god am i glad when this one is gone for good!

  18. Fuck DJ Vance. Many top level DJs in Berlin to pay the slightest attention to it. Irrelevant individual.

    Go Olaf

  19. Over the last decade they have been accepting anyone with a pulse.

  20. It must have been a terrible wooden couch in this Bavarian hotel. Bad night 

  22. “free speech in Europe means that you are not attacking others in ways that are against legislation and laws we have in our country.”

    Translation:

    “Free speech in Europe is being free to say what we want -or graciously allow- you to say.”

  23. Scholz labbert viel wenn der Tag lang ist aber machen tut er nie was.

  24. The irony of it all is that the White House has published that speech on their Youtube channel, but has turned off the comments lmao.

    Them’s the brakes.

  25. See previous elections in Georgia, Moldova. No intervention from European countries lol. But then it was Democratic elections. Hypocrisy to the max

  26. It wasn’t Germany, but didn’t UK labour politicians go to the USA to campaign for Kamala???

  28. Demokratie – Macht des Volkes, Macht der Mehrheit. nicht Macht von “our Democraty”

  31. Easy for Scholz to make big speeches.
    He will be voted out of office, and probably out of politics entirely, in one week and he knows it.

    Definition of “nothing to lose”

  32. Wow few with very high upvotes but lots of downvotes comments, what the hell happened here?? lmao

  33. They rigged elections in the USA, and now they act on Master Putler’s orders via Elon Musk’s asset.
    They blackmail allies, threaten Canada, and use economic terrorism.
    They threaten anyone while blaming China and Russia.
    They steal data using AI to profile and manipulate countries -> and then they tell us to drop GDPR because we must trust them?

    And they talk about EU democracy?

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