{"id":137551,"date":"2025-02-17T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/us-tensions-plague-final-phase-of-german-election-campaign\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:00:57","slug":"us-tensions-plague-final-phase-of-german-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/us-tensions-plague-final-phase-of-german-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"US tensions plague final phase of German election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137551\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Germany enters the final week of election campaigning Monday, with the debate more heated than ever amid controversy over alleged US interference in favour of the far right. After weeks of sparring on migration and a surge of support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the race took a new turn last week with comments by US Vice President JD Vance. Speaking in Munich, Vance called on Germany to drop its decades-long taboo of having the far right in government, insisting there was \u201cno room for firewalls\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His comments brought tens of thousands of demonstrators to the streets of Berlin on Sunday. The remarks also became one of the main talking points in the latest TV debate between top candidates. \u201cI will not allow an American vice president to tell me who I can talk to here in Germany,\u201d said Friedrich Merz, whose party is currently leading the polls on around 30 percent. The conservative CDU candidate told voters he would \u201cnot tolerate such interference\u201d in the February 23 polls or coalition negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Olaf Scholz also rejected Vance\u2019s comments as \u201cunacceptable\u201d and asserted there is \u201cno cooperation with the extreme right\u201d. But the leader of the ascending AfD \u2014 which also has the support of top Washington adviser Elon Musk \u2014 on Sunday praised Vance for having \u201cspoken out so clearly\u201d. \u201cWe must not build firewalls to exclude millions of voters from the outset \u2014 we have to talk to each other. He made that clear,\u201d Alice Weidel told the TV audience.<\/p>\n<p>With more TV showdowns scheduled for the coming days, as well as public rallies, candidates are vying for every vote in the bitter campaign. Around 30 percent of Germans are still undecided about who they want to vote for in the election, according to the latest surveys. Viewers of Sunday\u2019s debate put Merz ahead with 32 percent, while Scholz came second with 25 percent saying he was the most convincing candidate, according to a poll by the RTL broadcaster. Weidel \u2014 the first AfD politician to feature in such a debate \u2014 found favour with 18 percent of viewers. She was tied with Robert Habeck of the Greens.<\/p>\n<p>The vote is being held six months earlier than planned after Scholz\u2019s centre-left coalition collapsed unable to agree on how to balance the budget.The campaign since has been dominated by a bitter debate on migration after a series of attacks blamed on asylum seekers. Most recently, a two-year-old girl and her mother were killed in a car-ramming attack in Munich last week that left 37 others wounded. The anti-immigration AfD has seen its poll ratings edge upwards in recent months and is expected to register a record-breaking score of around 20 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/us-tensions-plague-final-phase-of-german-election-campaign\/article\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/us-tensions-plague-final-phase-of-german-election-campaign\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/us-tensions-plague-final-phase-of-german-election-campaign\/\">US tensions plague final phase of German election campaign<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17973,574,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-137551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-german-election-campaign","tag-us","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}