Germany: Mass protests after far-right AfD helps CDU/CSU 01/31/2025 January 31, 2025. A non-binding motion to restrict immigration has sparked outrage after citizens said the conservative CDU/CSU ...

1 day ago · Despite repeated claims that there is a "firewall" against the AfD, political scientists have pointed out that almost all of Germany's political parties — most commonly the CDU — have openly ...

A non-binding motion to restrict immigration has sparked outrage after citizens said the conservative CDU/CSU broke a promise not to work with the far-right AfD. Protesters in Berlin gathered ...

23 hours ago · Germany’s Merkel blasts CDU leader for cooperating with far-right AfD. Friedrich Merz, head of the centre-right CDU, relied on support from AfD to pass parliamentary motion on migration.

2 days ago · Germany’s conservatives are leading the polls with 30 percent — putting Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in pole position to become the next chancellor — and the AfD is in second place with 20 percent.

1 day ago · Merz took over the CDU after Merkel, a former rival, stepped down as chancellor in 2021. A more conservative figure, he has taken a more restrictive stance on migration. He said last week that Germany has had a “misguided asylum and immigration policy” for a decade — since Merkel allowed large numbers of migrants into the country.

3 days ago · The CDU and CSU have accepted my offer to vote together with the AfD in the Bundestag on the crucial issue of migration,” the AfD’s chancellor candidate, Alice Weidel, wrote in a post on X.

2 days ago · With Scholz’s Social Democrats and Habeck’s Greens blocking the bill, the CDU is seeking support from other opposition parties, including the far right, breaking a long-standing political taboo against cooperating with the AfD. The CDU’s willingness to pass legislation with far-right backing signals a broader European shift, as center ...

6 days ago · The firewall around the AfD has shown cracks in recent years — particularly in the far right strongholds of eastern Germany. In 2020, Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the liberal Free Democrats voted together with the AfD in the eastern German state of Thuringia to oust the state’s left-wing premier. The move ...

Aug 27, 2023 · The leader of Germany's largest opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has once again ruled out any cooperation between his party and the far-right Alternative for Germany...