Vice President JD Vance speaks with Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Nov. 20, 2025, in Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
Meanwhile, Vance in 2025 cautioned that Russia and China don't pose as great a threat to European nations as the "threat from within," in regard to issues like censorship and illegal immigration. Likewise, Vance claimed that European voters didn’t endorse opening the "floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants."
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"To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion or, God forbid, vote a different way, or even worse, win an election," Vance said at the 2025 conference, which was held in February.
Vice President JD Vance gives a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany February 14, 2025. (Leah Millis/Reuters)
Meanwhile, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre claimed that Vance was off base on his comments about immigration in Europe.
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"He speaks as though we are not focused on immigration in Europe," Gahr Støre said. "I mean, this is the big theme in every country, that we want to have control of our borders."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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