{"id":76134,"date":"2026-07-15T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/germany-warns-against-election-interference-as-us-offers-funding-to-maga-aligned-causes-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:54:51","slug":"germany-warns-against-election-interference-as-us-offers-funding-to-maga-aligned-causes-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/germany-warns-against-election-interference-as-us-offers-funding-to-maga-aligned-causes-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany warns against election interference as US offers funding to Maga-aligned causes in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New state department scheme will provide grants to \u2018address sovereignty, migration, censorship and lawfare\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Friedrich Merz has warned Donald Trump\u2019s administration against interfering in German elections after the US state department announced a scheme to fund Maga-aligned causes in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The German chancellor was responding to a new US initiative offering grants of up to $3m (\u00a32.2m) for European charities, thinktanks and individuals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/15\/germany-warns-against-election-interference-as-us-offers-funding-to-maga-aligned-causes-in-europe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New state department scheme will provide grants to \u2018address sovereignty, migration, censorship and lawfare\u2019 Friedrich Merz has warned Donald Trump\u2019s administration against interfering in German elections after the US state department announced a scheme to fund Maga-aligned causes in Europe. The German chancellor was responding to a new US initiative offering grants of up to &#8230; <a title=\"Germany warns against election interference as US offers funding to Maga-aligned causes in Europe\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/germany-warns-against-election-interference-as-us-offers-funding-to-maga-aligned-causes-in-europe\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Germany warns against election interference as US offers funding to Maga-aligned causes in Europe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}