Just days after a Muslim perpetrator drove into the crowd at a Pride parade, Alfonso Pantisano was quick to assert that the CDU is fuelling “queerphobia.”
The Bundestag’s Jens Spahn was hearing calls for him to quit after he used a U.S. surrogate mother abroad, contradicting the stance he took while a health minister.
Senior CDU figures are signalling openness to cooperation with Die Linke in eastern Germany, ignoring the right-wing AfD that keeps surging in the polls.
Rather than lifting us out of our current political trench warfare, the dispute over a reference to God in the Saarland constitutional preamble merely illuminates it.
In a significant escalation of the “fortified democracy” doctrine, Saxony’s CDU-led ministry has authorized investigations into civil servants based on social media activity and tips from workplace colleagues.
