Germany warns US against election interference with Maga-aligned grants scheme
Friedrich Merz has warned Donald Trump’s administration against interfering in German elections after the US state department announced a scheme to fund Maga-aligned causes in Europe.
The German chancellor was responding to a US initiative offering grants of up to $3m (£2.2m) for European charities, thinktanks and individuals.
The funding will be for those seeking to “address national sovereignty, migration, censorship and lawfare challenges in line with shared political philosophy, law and our common western civilizational heritage”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/germany-warns-against-election-interference-as-us-offers-funding-to-maga-aligned-causes-in-europeOpen linkView original on sh.itjust.works
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I don't know if anyone told Fritze yet but his majority whip in parliament is an honorary maggat?
Isn't he himself?
Don't think so, no. Merz strikes me more as one of those delusional old-timers who believe that cooperation as equals across the big pond is still possible once Trump is gone and everything goes back to normal. Hint: It won't.
Merz is an opportunistic little bitch too fucking dense to understand when he's being the useful idiot.
Soo, not the Nazi stuff? They want to fund science? 🥹
Deep down I always knew Trump was one of the good guys 🥹🥹
brb selling my soul for a thinktank just so that I can get out of poverty.
Or else?
As if that would be the only influence, by the US and by other countries.
If we had free media and educated people, influence couldn't do harm. The best day to start educating everybody has long gone, but the second best moment to start is now.
E.g. Merz could use his officially not existing influence on a public TV channel to not self-censor critical material. https://feddit.org/post/32732388