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Politico (22 Mayıs 2025)

Max Griera

Germany’s Nazi past should serve as a warning to Europe’s conservatives as they wrestle with how far to rely on support from the far right to push through their policies, the EU’s center-right leader said.

In an exclusive POLITICO interview, Manfred Weber said he believes the European People’s Party ― the umbrella group of center-right parties from across the continent that Weber leads ― has a huge mandate to deliver right-wing programs, but must do so without committing the same mistakes that Germany’s conservatives did in the 1930s when they enabled Adolf Hitler to come to power.

“Having also my German history in mind with Weimar and the Nazi regime, then the real historic mistake was to give right-extreme politicians executive power, and that is for us the red line,” he said. 

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