JD Vance breaks taboo by meeting with leader of Germany’s far-right party
by Andrew Roth from US news | The Guardian on (#6V9WZ)
US vice-president meets with AfD leader Alice Weidel as Trump administration courts European populist parties
JD Vance has met with the leader of Germany's far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party, breaking a taboo in German politics as the Trump administration continues to court and promote far-right populist parties across Europe.
At the meeting in Munich on Friday, the US vice-president and AfD leader, Alice Weidel, reportedly discussed the war in Ukraine, German domestic politics and the so-called brandmauer, or firewall against the right", that prevents ultra-nationalist parties like AfD from joining ruling coalitions in Germany.
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