Olaf Scholz says Germany ‘will not accept’ people who ‘intervene in our democracy’ after US vice-president’s speech in Munich

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Agence France-Presse has some more on Olaf Scholz’s comments today at the Munich Security Conference.

On Ukraine, the German chancellor said:

We will also not accept any solution that leads to a decoupling of European and American security. Only one person would benefit from this: President Putin.

We Europeans will represent these interests confidently and unitedly in the upcoming negotiations.”