Musk, a pro-populist thorn within the EU’s aspect: Concerns develop over ‘international interference’ | EUROtoday
He has known as the German chancellor an “incompetent idiot” and the nation’s president an “anti-democratic tyrant”. Perhaps such invective wouldn’t matter if Elon Musk didn’t have the affect that he does. But Europe is a key marketplace for the tech billionaire, and it consists of electrical automobiles, area applied sciences and satellites – presently the subject of discussions between Musk’s SpaceX and the Italian authorities – in addition to social media platform X, the place Musk has streamed a dialog with the chief of Germany’s far-right AfD. That social gathering is polling in second place forward of essential German parliamentary elections in late February. And after all, Musk has the ear of incoming US President Donald Trump.
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