European leaders should end the isolation of far-right parties across the Continent, US vice-president JD Vance has said.
The comments mark an extraordinary embrace of a once-fringe political movement with which the Trump administration shares a common approach on migration, identity and internet speech.
The address stunned and silenced hundreds of attendees at the Munich Security Conference, a forum where top-level politicians, diplomats and analysts had gathered expecting to hear US president Donald Trump’s plans for ending the war in Ukraine and Europe’s defence against a rising Russian threat.
Mr Vance singled out his German hosts, telling them to drop their objections to…