{"id":26370,"date":"2025-01-03T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=26370"},"modified":"2025-01-03T06:24:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:24:59","slug":"billionair-musk-increasingly-injecting-himself-into-eupolitics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/01\/billionair-musk-increasingly-injecting-himself-into-eupolitics\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionair Musk increasingly injecting himself into EU politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The world&#8217;s richest man just helped Donald Trump return to the White House, but Elon Musk isn&#8217;t just interested in the future of the United States, he is increasingly injecting himself into European politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleRender_article__7i2EW\">\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Over the past six months, Musk has been outspoken about issues far beyond America&#8217;s borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The billionaire has argued that Britain is &#8220;turning into a police state&#8221; and claimed that the once-shunned German far-right political party Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) is the country&#8217;s &#8220;only hope&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He&#8217;s also called for a new election in the United Kingdom, despite one being held in July last year, and argued that &#8220;only Reform can save Britain&#8221;, reported ABC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Reform UK is a populist, right-wing political party led by Brexiteer Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The pair met before Christmas at Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago resort, where they discussed political tactics and there are reports Musk is planning to donate up to $160 million to the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">This week, the US tech-mogul released a series of posts on his social media platform X in an apparent attempt to discredit UK&#8217;s Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In several posts, he called for the release of far-right British activist Tommy Robinson, who is serving an 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court for repeating false allegations a Syrian refugee schoolboy was a violent thug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He also added his voice to calls for a national inquiry into a child abuse scandal that occurred in an English town from 1997 to 2013.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowAuto__c1_IL ContentAlignment_floatRight__nfR_t RelatedCard_relatedCard__4Im5s interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU interactive_hoverContext__LDUDX interactive_defaults__AKxUU\" data-component=\"RelatedCard\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/104780510\">\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Billionaires are playing an increasing role in US politics, and while some are very visible, several legal rulings have paved the way for other mega-wealthy donors to splash their cash and cover their tracks.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It&#8217;s not the first time Musk has criticised the Starmer government. In July last year, as parts of England grappled with anti-immigration riots, Musk posted on X that &#8220;civil war is inevitable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Elsewhere, Musk has thrown his support behind Germany&#8217;s AfD party, describing them as the &#8220;last spark of hope&#8221; for the nation, and is set to host the party&#8217;s leader for a live interview on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He laid out his support for the party in an opinion piece for German newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, which led to the resignation of the masthead&#8217;s opinion editor and accusations from the government that Musk is attempting to influence next month&#8217;s German election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Opinion polls are predicting the anti-immigration AfD party is on track to become the largest opposition group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Musk argued his &#8220;significant investments&#8221; in Germany gave him a right to speak out about the nation&#8217;s politics.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s richest man just helped Donald Trump return to the White House, but Elon Musk isn&#8217;t just interested in the future of the United States, he is increasingly injecting himself into European politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-headline"],"views":56,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26373,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370\/revisions\/26373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}