The US president’s statements came after his vice president, Jd Vance “Loss of European values”.
United States President Donald Trump has expressed concern about what he says is a threat to the “right to freedom of expression” in Europe, following the similar statements of his vice president, Jd Vance.
Asked about JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he lamented the decline of freedom of expression on the old continent, Donald Trump stressed: “Europe is losing its wonderful right to freedom of expression.”
“Europe has a big problem of immigration,” the Republican added.
In his speech in Munich, the US vice president stated that freedom of expression is decreasing, especially in Europe, criticizing allies by reducing shared with the United States.
Regretting “the loss of European values,” Vance criticized countries for suppressing “alternative political views” and pursuing divergent messages.
“The threat that concerns me most to Europe is the internal threat represented by Europe’s retreat in relation to the values that shares with the United States,” he said.
According to Vance, Brussels regulations on social networks are an attack on freedom of expression “in an effort to combat what they call ‘hate speech'”, as well as the actions of the German police, which they accused of chasing individuals for “release antipheminist discourses “.
“When we see European courts to nullify elections,” Vance said about the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights to reject the allegations of Romania’s Pro-Russian presidential candidate to validate his electoral victory, “we have to ask if we need to do More than just talking about values and starting to act according to them. “
He stressed, if a democracy is destroyed by messages paid by a foreign power, it is because “it was probably not a very strong democracy.”
In his speech, Vance mentioned in particular the case of Romania, where the first lap of the presidential elections was annulled by the Constitutional Court. Far-right candidate Calin Georgescu took unexpectedly in the front in the poll with more than 20% of the votes, campaigning mainly on the Chinese Tiktok platform, which is suspected to have been manipulated.
This speech to the world elite of diplomacy and defense left European leaders “shocked” with this “total humiliation,” said Ukrainian Deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko, present in Munich, on the social network X.
