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Musk’s AfD election campaign aid: What action the EU can take

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Published: January 8th, 2025,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Elon musk personal X account with Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz and the German flag seen in this photo illustration. Taken in Brussels, Belgium, On 6 January 2025.
Elon Musk has called on people to vote for the AfD and called Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz a fool.
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X owner Elon Musk is getting heavily involved in the German election campaign – with his election recommendation for the far-right AfD and now also with his public talk with AfD top candidate Alice Weidel. Is he allowed to do this? First of all, the EU Commission says yes. Everyone, including Mr. Musk, naturally has the right to express their opinion, writes the Commission in a reply to CDU MEPs Daniel Caspary and Andreas Schwab.

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