Chancellor Merz criticizes the state of democracy in the US. “Freedom of expression is under the sign of question, the independence of justice is repressed”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz mourned the decline in the world of law, especially in the US, in an unusual message directly to a key ally, reports Bloomberg, taken over by News.ro.

The US “have changed so fundamentally in recent years, perhaps even decades, that the rules are no longer respected, parliamentary democracy is under pressure, freedom of expression is questioned, and the independence of the judicial system is repressed,” Merz told a business forum in Berlin.

“Germany is on the right track”

Without mentioning President Donald Trump or his administration directly, the German-right leader said he wants to offer what he called “a realistic evaluation” of the situation. Merz added that it is no longer a worldwide thing that the rules and international law are respected.

His comments come in the context in which Trump radically remodels US policy since taking over the White House in January. He has implemented a number of new customs tariffs against many of the country's closest partners, including the European Union, has opened the criminal prosecution of its opponents and mobilized the federal order forces to suppress immigrants without documents and protests, despite the opposition of local officials.

The US president has also been involved in the internal policies and political disputes of other countries, including his criticisms of the criminal prosecution of the former Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro and by the recent attacks on the transition of Germany and his migration policies.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeph has adopted a critical tone similar to Merz's, in the margin of the UN General Assembly in New York, after listening to Trump's speech. “I did not feel criticized by Mr. Trump,” Wadeph told Bloomberg TV, in response to a harsh statement of Trump who attacks German policies. “Germany is on the right track, but in Europe we do everything in our own sovereignty. We have our own ideas. So, the advice of others are not really necessary,” said the head of German diplomacy.

A dispute started by JD Vance

Merz's statements are coming after the US Vice -President JD Vance criticized the European democracies at the Munich Security Conference that took place in February this year.

JD Vance, criticized by European leaders in the speech held on Friday at the Munich Security Conference and complained “with the withdrawal of Europe from some of its most fundamental values”, through restrictions on freedom of expression, rules of online content and political walls for radical parties.

“The threat that worries me the most (is, no) the threat from within,” said the American official, who urged Europe for freedom.

In a broad, fiery and reference speech to Europe, the Vice-President of the United States accused the continent's leaders of abandoning their roots of “defenders of democracy” during the Cold War by what he demands to be a silence for the dissident voices.

He accused of European leaders of seeming to hide “behind ugly words in the Soviet era as misinformation” and that “they simply do not like the idea that a person with an alternative point of view could express another opinion.”

Last but not least, the American official accused him of European leaders of fear of their own voters, including topics, saying that this situation risks destroying democracy from the inside by disappointing the population to a point where he will no longer want to take part in democratic processes.

On the other hand, JD Vance rejected any criticism of Elon Musk and his alleged mixture in European elections, saying that “if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg, you can survive a few months by Elon Musk.”

He asked to give up the so-called “protective walls” on the political scene, an allusion to the agreement of the traditional German parties to isolate the far-right formations, such as the alternative for Germany, a statement made nine before the Germans came to the polls to choose a new Bundestag.