Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has hit back at Vice President JD Vance who had criticized European nations over free speech and their treatment of far-right parties. A day after Vance told the Munich Security Conference that the biggest threat to European their security came not from Russia and China but "from within," taking aim at European Union "commissars," a reference to officials in the Soviet Union, Scholz insisted that Germany would not accept foreign interference in its domestic politics. Newsweek has contacted...