Friedrich Merz and the AfD: Time To Ban AfD?

Friedrich Merz and the AfD: Time To Ban AfD?

As AfD grows in popularity, it gets potentially more dangerous — but also harder to ban. This could become a test for democracy.

The great asylum turnaround of Friedrich Merz – A contribution to X is currently causing a stir – and for top criticism of CDU chief Friedrich Merz: Sebastian Münzenmaier (AfD) published the following balance sheet: "Asyl rejections? 32 – New asylum applications? 1.535" He writes sarcastically: "So this is the big asylum turnaround of Friedrich Merz?! – a hardly veiled account with a candidate for chancellor who recently promised a lot, but obvi…

Rome, Kiev, Brussels, Warsaw... Gottfried Curio (AfD) reminds the newly elected Chancellor of the joy of travel which he showed in the first two weeks of his term of office. It was the domestic political issues with which Friedrich Merz was drawn into the election campaign for the CDU: solid state finances, less fetters for the economy by cutting down bureaucracy or the immigration turn. Still on the first day of his chancellorship, Merz full-bo…