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What no democracy — American, German, or European — will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered,
Vance said
Friedrich Merz must brace himself now,
warned Jan van Aken, one the leaders of The Left
We doubled our results in three years and took a major milestone yesterday!"
AfD leader Alice Weidel wrote Monday on social mediaTo justify spending towards their voters, I think for most politicians in Europe it would be helpful if the money goes to a European company,
Rozemuller added
A decent portion of additional defense spend across Europe is already priced in,
Equity research analyst Christoph Laskawi saidThis will play nicely into the European Defense Industrial Strategy,
Houwer explainedThe comments already out of the CDU since they've claimed the election are very nationalistic, and the idea that they need to protect themselves and rely less on the U.S. feeds into the need to spend more on defense,
Morningstar's Field told CNBC on MondayEurope's challenged security architecture makes it highly likely for the CDU/CSU and SPD to agree on higher defense spending in principle,
they saidAll the other parties said to give more money to Ukraine and weapons,
said Bora
I’m a white person, so it’s fine for me,
she said, suggesting the AfD base was racistI don’t go into the city in the dark alone anymore,
she saidExcept for the AfD, none of the other major parties responded favorably to Musk's interventions during the campaign, and I do not expect this to change in the immediate future,
Dr. Matthias Dilling, a professor of political science at Trinity College Dublin and a co-convenor of the German Politics Specialist Group, told Newsweek
For now, it seems the firewall will stay in place, so no formal coalitions and cooperation with the AfD, no matter how big their group in the Bundestag will be. At least that's what Merz has claimed,
Hertner saidElon Musk's involvement contributed to the AfD's growing visibility,
Czymara saidMuch will depend on the popularity of the new government,
Hertner saidAfD's views largely align with those of Elon Musk, so they don't seem to mind his interference in German politics,
Hertner saidWe saw the horrors wrought by these decisions yesterday in this very city. How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction?"
He was also harsh on Germany's immigration policy in the wake of the asylum-seeker car attack that injured two dozen people, telling attendees.jpg)
It's good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,
Musk told listeners at the rally, less than a month before voters went to the pollsWe want to have very good relations with our European neighbors, ... But we also want to have very good relations with the major powers. This includes Russia."
she said, addingI have no illusions at all about what is happening from America. Take a look at the recent interventions in the German election campaign by Mr. Elon Musk.”
Merz told supporters at a party event in Berlin on Sunday night