Germany warns US against election interference after it announces grants scheme

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

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 new 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”.
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Former US officials say the grant scheme is part of a months-long effort by the state department to repurpose US government funds to support far-right groups and potentially political parties in Europe.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/germany-warns-against-election-interference-as-us-offers-funding-to-maga-aligned-causes-in-europe

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Every allegation of foreign election interference by Republicans is a confession.

[WorseDayEver]

1. Germany TELLS U.S. Nazis not to fuck around in Germany --- Sounds good for Germany, we are fucked

[Cheezoholic]

2. If it talks like Putin walks like Putin, acts like Putin, well, they are going down the list Putin gave them on the 4th

During that 90 minute phone call with His Aighnus. We are now a full blown terrorist state. Fuck these repukes, every one of them. It's coming you SOB's. Grab your asses. We're coming for you.

[ChicagoTeamster]

3. Just as Trump is about to say there was foreign intervention in 2020 US election

[Karma13612]

4. OM heavens...

The US government is funding far-right election interference in Germany and the EU?

Are you kidding me? This is insane!

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young

Exclusive: Grants are part of controversial package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics

The documents reviewed by the Guardian set out details of the grants for the first time. They include $7m for 878, a “leading British and American think tank” devoted to “the rediscovery of our ancient culture” and “ending mass immigration”.

The 878 group lists its founding directors as Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former minister of state for Brexit opportunities, and his former special adviser Dr Radomir Tylecote, who has appeared on short-lived former prime minister Liz Truss’ YouTube show. During his appearance, he claimed: “We are not a functioning democracy at this point … it’s a worse system than in the United States.”
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The group appears to have been incorporated in the UK in March this year. 878’s website went live in early July, and says that its registration as a US nonprofit is “pending”. It takes its name from the year King Alfred the Great of the Saxons defeated the “Great Heathen Army”, led by a Danish warlord.
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Rees-Mogg, Young, and Tylecote were all scheduled to speak in London this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the inaugural British spin-off – organised by Liz Truss – of the influential US event. Earlier this month, Young appeared on Rees-Mogg’s GB News show to warn that the UK’s “Soviet-level censorship” of social media risked angering Donald Trump and JD Vance.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/trump-administration-to-grant-12m-to-groups-founded-by-uk-conservatives-jacob-rees-mogg-and-toby-young

The Trump regime is taking up the slack left after the downfall of Orban - interfering in "allies"' politics by bankrolling far right groups in various countries.