EU leaders get long-deserved slap from Vance in Munich

In the Die Weltwoche’s view, he addressed values that Europe’s ‘politically correct functionaries have long lost’

US Vice President JD Vance delivered a “long-deserved slap in the face” to EU leaders by criticizing the alliance for censorship and a lack of democracy at the Munich Security Conference, according to an article in the Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche.

“The slap that JD Vance gave to the gathered bureaucrats, party leaders, and government officials of the West was long overdue,” the commentary states.

“Amid the rustle of bombastic phrases and platitudes typical of such routine events, the dynamic US vice president decisively touched on the very essence of the Western, European, and especially German malaise – the inner emptiness.”

The magazine notes that Vance spoke “not about weapons or alliances” but rather about “what they should be used for.”

In the magazine’s view, he addressed values that Europe’s “politically correct functionaries have long lost.”

“Who else could accept the words of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who spoke afterward and epitomizes the lime-covered and corruption-riddled nomenklatura that, despite constant rhetoric about freedom, continues to impose new censorship laws?” Die Weltwoche concludes.

On February 14, at the conference in Munich, Vance criticized the EU for censorship, including the blocking of social media. He emphasized that Europe was afraid of its own voters and rendered itself useless to the US.

In particular, he referenced the organizers’ decision not to invite representatives from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Sarah Wagenknecht’s Alliance for Reason and Justice (BSW) parties to the Munich Security Conference, as well as the leading German parties’ refusal to cooperate with the AfD.