Struggle over Fire Wall to the Afd: East Cdu Man Scourged "Three-Ape-Politics"

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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The German chancellor Friedrich Merz can no longer ignore the strength of the AfD. However, any attempt to rearrange the relationship threatens to become a disintegration test.

focus.de

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Just before the exam of the CDU-Presidium on the weekend, the nervousness increases. Prominent ex-grands of the party shake at the fire wall. More: current survey results.

cicero.de

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The fire wall logic paralyzes the country. But an end to the CDU's turning to AfD is not in sight. It needs a completely new approach: the radical commitment of CDU/CSU and SPD to centrism. In the countries, new coalitions would have to be formed immediately – without the Greens.

junge Welt

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Union: Call for "conditional willingness to talk" to AfD. Former Secretary-General ready to "take decisions" with the right-wing party.

Welt

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The Union still has the opportunity to influence how the AfD is developing. Individual thinkers of CDU and CSU have now clearly realized that the fate of their party depends on it.

Spiegel

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Some former party leaders of the Union recommend an end to the AfD fire wall, while other parts of the CDU stand against it. Now SPD Secretary General Klüssendorf and the Left are interfering in the debate.