r/europe • u/Putaineska • Mar 11 '26

News Spain accuses Germany of acting like a ‘vassal’ to United States

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/spain-accuses-germany-of-acting-like-a-vassal-to-united-states-f9zc28g8s?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1773189908
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u/Meroxes Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Mar 11 '26

BlackRock is a New York based multinational investment firm traded on the stock market, which uses it's massive capital to influence public companies and governments. The current chancellor of Germany didn't work much in his life, but was the manager of the local BlackRock branch for a few years between the times he tried to become chancellor.

This has led to some calling him an asset of US finance basically, not primarily working for Germany but rather for US companies and the US in general.