Germany probably warned the next chancellor that Europe can no longer rely on the US that he is unconditionally defending her, on the eve of the election in which the prophecy party in the country will be achieved the best result in his history.
Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the Center, who would say the surveys would say on Sunday, suggested on Friday that Berlin instead was seeking deeper safety of beliefs from the UK and France, two nuclear western nuclear western countries.
He gave his comments as he expressed doubt that under President Donald Trump, he would fully accept his NATO contract, the foundation of the Transatlantic Association’s foundation.
Asked if “betting everything” for the US president to adhere to NATO article five defenses, Merz said: “We must be ready for the fact that Donald Trump will no longer fully accept the promise of help in the box in the box NATO contract. “
The right center leader invited Europeans to “put all the efforts at least to defend. . . Continent independently, “because he suggested discussions with London and Paris” on whether to share a nuclear or at least nuclear safety from the UK and France, too. “
Sincere remarks underline deep concerns in European capital on the furious dedication of the continent safety of the week when they have now translated to the treatment of connections with Russia and blamed Ukraine for the invasion of the Kremlin 2022.
On Friday, the German Interior Ministry warned of the Russian Operation Disinformation to influence the election campaign with false videos spreading on social media in Hamburg and Leipzig.
Security agencies in Leipzig and Hamburg have identified multiple pseudo-media and social media accounts as part of the network, enhancing concerns about Russian interference with democratic processes.
Merz comments also come because public opinion polls suggest that the rebel extreme right alternative to the German party is ready to secure a fifth vote, double its result in the last competition.
German main politicians were terrified last week when the US Vice President JD Vance to insinuate seemed unless European political mainstream collaborated on the far right“There is nothing for you America.”
Vance then met Suiderica AFD Alice Weidel at a conference on security conferences in Munich, but not Olaf Scholz, a chancellor from the center.
Green candidate Robert Habeck, Minister of the Departure Economy, presented the election and a government to bring, as perhaps the last opportunity of Germany to give up on the far right. “If we do not solve problems in the next four years, right -wing populism will be unstoppable,” he said on Friday.
Forsa poll on Friday placed a CDU at 29 percent, AFD at 21 percent, and Scholz SPD at 15 percent – embarked on its worst defeat of 1887.
Merz’s task of forming a government would be more difficult to perform the strong performance of AFD, which he vowed to be a partner.
It would be an even bigger challenge if smaller parties like liberals, the far left of Die Linke and a new party led by the left-wing Wagenknecht of the German 5-pointed election threshold, further breaking parliament.
In the indication of the growing confidence of AFD, Weidel posted a high level of international support that the party recently conquered on Friday. The video included Vance, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and Trump’s commissioner, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Herbert Kickl, leader of the Austrian Party of the far right.
On the contrary, the party, whose former leader once rejected the Nazi period as a crackless piece of bird shit, “previously avoided even the ultimate right -wing politicians, such as French Marina Le Pen.
AFD rush, driven by growing anger over immigration and deep dissatisfaction with the Scholz government, would mark the sharp momentum of the right in the largest eurozone economy, which is facing high energy prices and the competition of cheaper Chinese manufacturers.
“Markets and election surveys are deceptively calm for the choice,” said Tomasz Wieladek, a major European economist in T Rowe Price’s property manager, stating the risk of blocking minorities that will prevent reforms and potentially hit the euro.
On Friday, Merz, 69, who left politics for a decade after losing the fight for power against the party of rival Angela Merkel, also emphasized the scope of the economic challenge. “The most important bet in the future is to march our strength for this economy to grow again,” said the former German a chair of Blackkrock.
Merz also expressed concern this week that, although he hopes that he will “remain democracy and does not enter the authoritarian populist system. . . Perhaps America will go into a long period of instability and that this populism, this autocratic behavior of the head of the state, will continue. “
Additional reporting Ian Smith
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