European authorities criticized Vice President JD Vance’s speech on Friday, where he swayed with European allies for restraining freedom of speech, losing control of immigrants and refusing to work with the government’s fierce political parties. , reported CNN.
Vance began his speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. The Trump administration believes it can strike a “rational settlement between Russia and Ukraine,” but it has said that Europe’s most worrying threat is a “threat from within.”
Ukrainian Parliament Olexi Gonchalenko called Vance’s speech “the complete humiliation of all European leaders.”
“I think this was one of the speeches that created the era of the Munich Conference,” Gonchalenko posted on Telegram on Friday.
“This is a bad call for us… we are in a very difficult situation. No one can help us except us,” he said. There is the United States, its vassals, the European Union. ”
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called Vance’s Diatrib “unacceptable” against European leaders.
Speaking at another event on Friday, Pistorius said he could not start his address the way he originally intended. “If I understood him (Vance) correctly, he compared some of the conditions of Europe with those of the authoritarian regime… that is unacceptable,” he said.
“Vice President Vance strongly opposes the impression that minorities are oppressed or silent in our democracy,” Pistorius added.
Pistorius, who is campaigning for the German Social Democrats (SPD) ahead of the Feb. 23 federal election, said German democracy has acknowledged multiple opinions. Other parties. ”