5 hours ago · BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany’s free speech laws during an appearance at a conservative gathering outside Washington, linking the country’s limits against hate speech to American troops stationed there. German law sets restrictions on free speech, including the long-standing ban on Holocaust denial and any glorification of the country’s Nazi past.

Feb 14, 2025 · MUNICH (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance met the leader of a German far-right party during a visit to Munich on Friday, nine days before a German election and after lecturing European leaders about the state of democracy. He said there is no place for “firewalls.” Vance met with Alice Weidel, the co-leader and candidate for chancellor of the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for ...

6 days ago · A day after Mr. Vance stunned the Munich Security Conference by telling German leaders to drop their so-called firewall and allow the hard-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, to enter their ...

Feb 14, 2025 · US Vice President JD Vance vented at European leaders Friday, telling them that the biggest threat to their security was “from within,” rather than China and Russia.

6 days ago · Mr. Vance did not mention the far-right party, Alternative for Germany, by name, but the context was clear as he criticized a decision to bar certain political parties from the Munich Security ...

5 days ago · Germany's other political parties have refused to work with the far-right AfD. ... Germany's Olaf Scholz slams JD Vance for suggesting more inclusion of far-right Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice ...

6 days ago · Eighty years after American soldiers liberated Dachau, top German officials this weekend all-but accused Mr. Vance — and by extension, President Trump — of boosting a political party that many...

3 days ago · Read U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s remarks at the Munich Security Conference.

6 days ago · Ahead of Feb. 23 elections in Germany, polls show the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD — whose co-leader met with Vance on Friday — in second, ahead of Scholz’s own Social ...

Feb 14, 2025 · Vance used his 20-minute speech to single out several European nations, including the UK. ... Nine days before a tense national election in Germany, he touched on a heated debate in the country ...