JD Vance meets the leader of the German extremist party after complaining about freedom of expression in Europe “in retreat”

US Vice President JD Vance met with the leader of a right -wing German party during a visit to Munich on Friday, nine days before the German elections and after giving a lecture of European leaders about the state of democracy.

His office said that Vans met Alice Widel, the co -leader and candidate for the right -wing alternative advisor and anti -immigrant to the Germany Party.

The main German parties say they will not work with the party, and the situation is often referred to as “the wall of protection”. Opinion polls put an alternative to Germany, or AFD, in second place in the elections on February 23, with the support of about 20 percent.

The meeting of the meeting came after senior German officials retreated to the complaints of Vans about the state of democracy in Europe, as the Minister of Defense described it as “unacceptable” to extract parallel with authoritarian governments. He and Chancellor Olaf Schools defended the wall of protection for the German major parties.

On Friday at the Munich Security Conference, Verse said that he feared that freedom of expression will be “in retreat” across the continent.

“For many of us on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, it seems more like the established old interests that hide behind words in the ugly Soviet era such as wrong information and misinformation, which does not like the idea that someone has an alternative view that may express an alternative point of view and Vans said:

The German minister says: “unacceptable” comments

German Defense Secretary Boris Pistorius, who was speaking after two hours, said he could not leave the speech and does not exceed the comment.

“If I understand it properly, it compares the circumstances in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes,” Pezorius said. “This is unacceptable, not Europe, not the democracy in which I live and I am currently campaigning.”

And Vans told European leaders that “if you are afraid of voters, there is nothing that America can do for you.” He said that no democracy can escape millions of voters that their concerns are “not valid or not even deserved to be considered.”

“Democracy depends on the sacred principle that matters to the voice of people,” he said. “There is no room for protection walls.”

Pistorius replied that “every opinion has a voice in this democracy. It makes it possible for partially extremist parties like AFD the campaign completely naturally, just like each other party.”

He pointed out that Weidel was on German television at the time of Thursday night with the other competitors.

But he added that “democracy does not mean that the loud minority is right automatically”, and that “democracy must be able to defend itself against extremists who want to destroy it.”

Scholz posted on the social network X to “reject” Vans categorically.

“Through the experiences of Nazism, the democratic parties in Germany have a common consensus-the wall of protection against the right-wing extremist parties.”

“We take every opinion seriously, but we decide ourselves with those who form an alliance. .

In a post at X earlier on Friday, Weidel wrote “An excellent speech!” There is no room for protection walls! “

The Vans with Widel’s meeting came after its reception on Wednesday by the right -wing Prime Minister in Hungary Victor Urban. The Vice President’s office said that Vanced also met on Friday with German President Frank Walter Steinmeier and opposition leader Friedrich Mirz, while he met Schulz earlier this week when both were in Paris at a summit on artificial intelligence.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Sahr Store took the case of how Vans urged European officials to excavate irregular immigration in a speech on Friday. Fans said that European voters did not vote to open “flood gates to millions of unrestricted immigrants.”

“He speaks as if we are not focusing on immigration in Europe,” said Store. “I mean, this is the big topic in every country, where we want to control our borders.”

He said that the Ukrainian refugees represented a significant increase in immigrants who are not registered in recent years – and they were accepted “because there is a continuous bloody war, which I did not mention, which I think does not address reality.”

“I do not agree with him that what is happening in Ukraine, and what is happening in Russia, is less important than the loss of freedom of expression in Europe.”