Germany: US ambassador Richard Grenell should be expelled, says FDP deputy leader

[nitpicker]

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-us-ambassador-richard-grenell-should-be-expelled-says-fdp-deputy-leader/a-47975156

Germany: US ambassador Richard Grenell should be expelled, says FDP deputy leader

Date 19.03.2019

Wolfgang Kubicki, the deputy chairman of the opposition Free Democrats (FDP), said Richard Grenell's repeated interference in German sovereignty should prompt Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to immediately declare Grenell persona non grata. "Any US diplomat who acts like a high commissioner of an occupying power must learn that our tolerance also knows its limits," said Kubicki, who is also one of five deputy speakers of Germany's Bundestag parliament.

Grenell had on Tuesday criticized Germany's military spending plans within NATO as insufficient, prompting Kubicki to accuse the envoy of "interfering" repeatedly in political issues of a sovereign country.

Grenell's criticism of Germany's defense spending came weeks after he demanded that Berlin halt Nord Stream 2, a gas pipeline being laid across the Baltic Sea to deliver gas from Russia to Germany, and threatened firms involved in the project with sanctions.

Carsten Schneider, caucus manager of the Social Democrats (SPD) within the parliament, told the German news agency DPA on Tuesday that "Mr Grenell is a complete diplomatic failure."
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President Donald Trump's ambassador apparently did not want to recognize that Germany was making a big contribution to the alliance's international missions such as Afghanistan, said Schneider.
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[DetlefK]

1. Just a bit of trivia on the Free Democrats and Social Democrats:

Free Democrats:
- socially liberal
- economically ultra-capitalist
- anti-war
- in general regarded as a party for the upper class

Social Democrats:
- socially liberal
- economically moderate left (regulated capitalism)
- has had a schism in recent years and lost about a third of its voters when the far-left wing seceded and formed its own party
- historically a worker-party but is currently struggling to find a new profile

[MyOwnPeace]

2. One of Grenell's past "jobs"

was serving as a frequent contributor to Tucker Carlson's program.
THAT should tell you all you need to know about him.........