German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has sharply criticized a speech by US Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference. JD Vance said that free speech was "in retreat" in Europe. Pistorius said, ''It's about his opinion about democracies. And I said, no, this is not acceptable to accuse us [of] not being real Democrats. And I had to make that clear as a representative of a German government here in Munich.''
