Munich:
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave a strong reprimand on Saturday to the attack of the American Vice President JD Vance on the attitude of Europe towards hate speech and on the far right, and said it was not good for others to tell Germany and Europe what to do .
A day earlier at the München security conference, VANCE European leaders damaged, accused them of censing the freedom of expression and the firewall of German regular parties strongly criticized the extreme right -wing department.
“It is not up to others to advise us to work with this party that we do not work with for good reasons,” said Scholz in comments at the Munich conference.
“That is not appropriate, especially not among friends and allies. We reject that firmly,” he said.
The anti-immigration AfD, which currently gauges around 20% prior to the general elections of 23 February, has paria status, among other things, large German parties in a country with a taboo on ultranationalist politics because of the Nazi past.
“Never again fascism, never racism, never again aggressive war. That is why an overwhelming majority in our country opposes someone who glorifies or justifies criminal national socialism,” said Scholz, referring to Adolf's ideology Hitler's 1933-45 Nazi regime.
Referring in a broader sense to Vance's criticism of Europe's limitation of hate -speech speech, which he has compared to censorship, Scholz said: “The current democracies in Germany and Europe are based on historical consciousness and the realization that democracies can be destroyed by radical anti -democrats.
“And this is why we have created institutions that ensure that our democracies can defend themselves against their enemies, and rules that do not limit or limit our freedom.”
From the prospect of conversations to put an end to the Ukraine-Russia war, it was expected to dominate the annual conference in Munich after a call between US President Donald Trump and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin this week, but Vance Hardly any Russia or Ukraine in his speech to the meeting at the meeting at the meeting at the meeting Friday.
Instead, he said that the threat for Europe that worried him the most was not Russia or China, but what he called a retreat through fundamental values for protecting the free speech – as well as immigration, of which he said it ” The hand was “in Europe.
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