{"id":566090,"date":"2025-11-12T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566090\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:37:18","slug":"afd-leader-says-putin-poses-no-threat-to-germany-warning-instead-of-poland-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566090\/","title":{"rendered":"AfD leader says Putin poses no threat to Germany, warning instead of Poland \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chrupalla went on to insist that any country can potentially pose a threat to Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake Poland, for example,\u201d Chrupalla said, citing the country\u2019s refusal to extradite<\/a> a Ukrainian citizen German authorities suspect of sabotaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022. \u201cPoland can also be a threat to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

German centrists are increasingly portraying the AfD as a party that represents Russian interests from inside Germany, with some going so far as to argue the Kremlin is taking advantage of the party\u2019s access to official information for espionage.<\/p>\n

Marc Henrichmann, the conservative chairman of the Bundestag\u2019s intelligence oversight committee, said he believes that Russia is doing exactly this.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia is naturally exerting its obvious influence in parliament, especially in the AfD, in order to spy and obtain sensitive information,\u201d Henrichmann recently told German newspaper Handelsblatt<\/a>. \u201cThe AfD is gratefully allowing itself to be used for this betrayal by Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chrupalla has forcefully pushed back against those accusations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chrupalla went on to insist that any country can potentially pose a threat to Germany. \u201cTake Poland, for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[32410,34051,2595,2000,299,805,11070,1824,660,2597,92298,5111,15857,770,332,657,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-566090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-alice-weidel","9":"tag-dmitry-medvedev","10":"tag-drones","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-foreign-policy","14":"tag-german-politics","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-kremlin","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-nord-stream-2","19":"tag-parliament","20":"tag-pipelines","21":"tag-poland","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115538417571597531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}