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 ...

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 ...

3 hours ago · People protest in front of the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Union party, CDU, against a migration vote at parliament Bundestag with far-right support of the Alternative for Germany party AfD, in Berlin, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. Poster reads: If afd is the answer, how stupid is the question’. ( Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)

20 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.

1 day ago · However, a formal amendment to Germany's immigration law is up for debate in the Bundestag on Friday. Again, the CDU, AfD, FDP and populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) are likely to vote in ...

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.

2 days ago · CDU leader Friedrich Merz refused to shun the help of the far-right AfD to secure the vote. The German parliament has passed a motion to tighten migration rules after a deadly attack by a rejected ...

21 hours ago · Germany's former Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised her own party leader for passing a motion in parliament with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). In a statement ...

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 ...