Germany's conservatives were able to pass a strict immigration motion with votes by the far-right party, marking a historic breach of the "firewall" on working with the far-right on policy. However, the conservative Christian Democrats breached what has become known as the "AfD firewall" on Wednesday when party leader Friedrich Merz put forward a motion

A cross-party group of 124 MPs put a motion on the agenda to bring proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court to ban the party, whose unprecedented alliance with the CDU caused a shock.

For the first time in the 75-year post-war history of the German parliament, one of the major parliamentary groups has made common cause with fascists to help an authoritarian and racist motion achieve a breakthrough.