Mr Vance will back Mr Musk during his speech at the MSC, with the billionaire owner of X expected to be in the crowd, before claiming that the firewall, as well as the wider European opposition to the far right on the continent, is curtailing the will of the people.
Mr Vance is speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday against the backdrop of president Donald Trump blindsiding Europe and Kyiv by organising a one-to-one with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
“It’s really about censorship and about migration, about this fear that President Trump and I have, that European leaders are kind of terrified of their own people,” Mr Vance said.
During his visit to Munich Mr Vance is expected to tell the European leaders in attendance that the continent must embrace the rise of antiestablishment politics, stop mass migration and halt progressive policies.
Freidrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and who is expected to win the chancellorship during elections on 23 February, recently broke the firewall when he used the AfD’s votes to pass a motion calling on the government to reintroduce permanent border controls and prioritise the deportation of those legally required to leave.
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