The German Chancellor is returned to the United States at the Security Conference while Trump’s administration changes the standards

Munich – The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Saturday returned to the defense of his position against the extreme right and said that his country will not accept people who “intervene in our democracy”, a day after the US vice president He scolded European leaders for their approach. To democracy.

The German leader spoke with only eight days before the crucial elections in Germany, with surveys that show the far -right alternative for the Germany party currently in second place.

Vance said Friday at the Munich Security Conference He fears that freedom of expression will be “in retired” throughout the continent.

“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 for political decision -making processes, and that there will be no cooperation with them,” said Scholz. “We really reject any idea of ​​cooperation between parts, other parts and this extreme right.”

A day before, Vance said that many Americans saw in Europe “entrenched interests that hide behind the ugly words of the Soviet era such as erroneous information and misinformation, who simply do not like the idea that someone with a point of Alternative view could express a different opinion or not so that God does not allow it.

Scholz, shooting, said: “Freedom of expression in Europe means that it is not attacking others so that they are against the legislation and the laws we have in our country.” I was referring to the rules in Germany that restrict hate speech.

The comments occurred when European leaders have been trying to make sense of a new hard line of Washington on issues that include democracy and the future of Ukraine, since the Trump administration continues to fly the transatlantic conventions that have been in force since after after World War II.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, celebrated a phone call With Russian President Vladimir Putin this week in which he said that the two leaders would probably meet soon to negotiate a peace agreement on Ukraine. Later, Trump assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he would also have a seat on the table. The war was caused by the invasion of Ukraine of Russia of Ukraine three years ago.

Already on Friday, the Ukrainian leader said that his country wants security guarantees before any conversation with Russia. Shortly before meeting with Vance in Munich, Zelenskyy said he will only accept to meet with Putin after a common plan with Trump is negotiated.

After a 40 -minute meeting with Zelenskyy, Vance said the Trump administration wants the war to end.

Beforehand, Vance gave lectures to European officials On freedom of expression and illegal migration in the continent, warning that they run the risk of losing public support if they do not quickly change the course.

“The threat that most worries me about Europe is not Russia. It is not China. He is no other external actor, ”said Vance in a speech that drew a warm answer. “What worries me is the threat from the inside: the withdrawal of Europe of some of its most fundamental values, shared values ​​with the United States of America.”

Apart from the event, Vance He met with Alice Weidel, co-leader of the extreme right and anti-immigrants for the German party, nine days before a German election.

The main German parties say they will not work with the party, in a long -standing position to reject the extreme right in a country marked by Nazism.

Vance then returned to Washington.

Among other speakers who will take the stages in Munich were the boss of the NATO Mark Rutte and the foreign ministers of countries such as Canada, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia and the new Government of Syria.

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