Munich security conference
Habeck sees the US government “alongside the autocrats”
Updated on February 15th, 2025 – 1:18 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
“What was that?” Many wondered that after the Vance speech at the Munich Security Conference. For Habeck it was no less than the termination of the western community of values.
Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck has evaluated the US Vice President JD Vance as a “turning point” in the relationship between Europe and the USA. “The American government (…) has quasi-rhetorical-political,” he said in an interview by the German Press Agency in Munich. “The western community of value has now been canceled here yesterday.” The government of US President Donald Trump represents different values position and has a different political understanding than was previously consensus between Europe and the United States.
Europe must now react confidently. “We don’t have to tremble and shiver now. On the contrary. We have every reason to say: This is not the German Way of Life, this is not The European Way of Life, that’s not our Basic Law. Hold out.”
Vance had accused European allies on Friday a restriction of freedom of expression and a threat to democracy. Among other things, he criticized the exclusion of AfD and BSW at the security conference and generally turned against an exclusion of parties: “There is no place for fire walls.”
Habeck banned such statements as interference. Germany decide “who we choose which coalitions are formed”. What Vance said was just wrong, said the Greens Chancellor candidate. “A reinterpretation of the truth, a reinterpretation of history, the history of democracy”. The first answer to the deputy of US President Donald Trump is: “You are not concerned with anything. It” S None of your business. Take care of your own things. “
Habeck also understood the decision of the conference management to exclude the AfD. “The AfD is in some cases an unconstitutional party. Here a lot of information is exchanged and discussed that affect the core area of security,” said the Vice Chancellor. “You can make this decision, but is the decision of the organizers here.”
