{"id":127335,"date":"2025-01-17T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/17\/musk-a-pro-populist-thorn-in-the-eus-side-concerns-grow-over-foreign-interference\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:14:49","slug":"musk-a-pro-populist-thorn-in-the-eus-side-concerns-grow-over-foreign-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/17\/musk-a-pro-populist-thorn-in-the-eus-side-concerns-grow-over-foreign-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk, a pro-populist thorn in the EU&rsquo;s side: Concerns grow over &lsquo;foreign interference&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>He has called the German chancellor an \u00ab\u00a0incompetent idiot\u00a0\u00bb and the country\u2019s president an \u00ab\u00a0anti-democratic tyrant\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0Perhaps such invective would not matter if Elon Musk did not have the influence that he does. But Europe is a key market for the tech billionaire, and it includes electric cars, space technologies and satellites \u2013 currently the topic of discussions between Musk&rsquo;s SpaceX and the Italian government \u2013 as well as social media platform X, where Musk has streamed a conversation with the leader of Germany&rsquo;s far-right AfD. That party is polling in second place ahead of crucial German parliamentary elections in late February. And of course, Musk has the ear of incoming US President Donald Trump.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has called the German chancellor an \u00ab\u00a0incompetent idiot\u00a0\u00bb and the country\u2019s president an \u00ab\u00a0anti-democratic tyrant\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0Perhaps such invective would not matter if Elon Musk did not have the influence that he does. But Europe is a key market for the tech billionaire, and it includes electric cars, space technologies and satellites \u2013 currently the topic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-127335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}