Friedrich Merz, leader of the right Central Christian Democratic Union, who claims to speak on Sunday on Friday, on Friday that Berlin instead was looking for deeper security guarantees from the UK and France, two countries in Western Europe.
He expressed his comments, expressing doubts that US President Donald Trump will fully bring his obligations to NATO, the cornerstone of the transatlantic alliance.
Asked if he will “do whatever” that the US president will fulfill the NATO’s fifth mutual commitment, Merz said: “We must be prepared for Donald Trump will no longer be fully accepted aid according to NATO contract”
The right leader called on Europeans “to make every effort to at least be able to defend… The continent on its own” if he offered a discussion with London and Paris “about whether nuclear sharing, or at least nuclear security with The UK and France can also appeal to us. ”
Open remarks emphasize deep concern in the European capitals regarding Washington’s unsuccessful commitment to the continent’s safety in a week when the US has passed ties with Russia and accused Ukraine of the Kremlin invasion of 2022.
On Friday, the German Interior Ministry warned about Russia’s misinformation operation to influence the election campaign with counterfeit videos that are distributed in Social Media in Hamburg and Leipzig.
Protective bodies in Leipzig and Hamburg identified several pseudo-media-sites and credentials in social media within the network, enhancing problems about Russian intervention in democratic processes.
Merz’s comments also come when opinions polls suggest that the insurgent alternative to the German party is ready to provide a fifth of the vote, double the score in the last competition.
Last week’s German basic substances were horrified when US Vice President JD Vance seemed to hint it if only Political Main in Europe cooperates with extreme right sides“Nothing can do for you America.”
In the future, Vens met co -chairman of AFD Alice Weidel, but not Olaf Scholtz, Chancellor of the Central Country, at the Munich Security Conference.
Candidate for Green Robert Habek, the Minister of Economy, who has drawn the elections and the government to which it will lead, because perhaps the last chance of Germany will restrain from the far right. “If we do not solve the problems in the next four years, the right populism will be stopped,” he said on Friday.
Forsa survey on Friday put CDU 29 percent, 21 percent, and Scholz SPD 15 percent – heading for the worst defeat since 1887.
The task of forming a government will be a more difficult way to perform AFD with which he promised not to cooperate.
It would be an even greater problem if smaller parties, such as liberals, far left and a new party led by the left-wagencht left, overcame the 5 percent electoral threshold of Germany.
Having indicated the growth of confidence in AFD, Weidel on Friday on Friday outlined a collection of international high -level support, which recently won the party. The video featured Vens, Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and Trump’s trustee, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban and Herbert Kik, leader of the Austrian Freedom Freedom Party.
On the contrary, the party whose former leader once rejected the Nazi period as a simple “piece of bird shit” were previously avoided by right -wing politicians such as France Maritime.
Splake AFD, which is fueled by anger over immigration and deep dissatisfaction with the Government of Scholz, will mark the sharp scope of the right in the largest eurozone economy, which fights high energy prices and more cheaper producers.
“The markets and election polls deceptively reassure the elections,” said Tomas Viledek, the chief European economist of the TRICE PRICE assets, citing the risk of blocking a minority that would prevent reform and potentially get into the euro.
On Friday, the 69 -year -old Merz, who left the policy for a decade after losing the fight for power against the party’s competitor Angela Merkel, also emphasized the scale of the economic problem. “The most important rate in the future is that we have micked our strength to grow this economy again,” said the former Blackrock German chairman.
This week, the Merz also expressed his concern that if he hoped that the US “remains democracy and do not move into an authoritarian populist system….. Perhaps America will enter into a longer period of instability and that this populism is the autocrating behavior of the heads of state, it It will continue. ”
Additional reporting is Smith
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