Germany: Center Right Discusses Reinstating Draft, EU-Wide Conscription Proposed
The CDU thinks compulsory service is unavoidable in Germany, but EPP chief Manfred Weber would rather introduce it across the entire EU.
The CDU thinks compulsory service is unavoidable in Germany, but EPP chief Manfred Weber would rather introduce it across the entire EU.
Nearly all the migrant-language posters in Leipzig were stolen or destroyed.
Two prominent members of Values Union, which sells itself as a true conservative alternative to the political establishment left after the party chairman called the Christian Democratic Union a “premium partner.”
“We must not tolerate” millions of Germans voting for the AfD, the CDU party leader said.
“The [German] government has already collapsed, but is hanging on to its fading power.”
Marco Wanderwitz says AfD “seriously endangers our free democratic basic order and the state as a whole.”
Voters in Bavaria and Hesse have severely punished the leftist government in Berlin.
Federal CDU warns regional counterparts to “keep a maximum distance” from AfD.
AfD polls 12 percentage points ahead of the SPD, which has ruled Brandenburg for the past 30 years.
The German government is reportedly exploring ways to send long-range weapons to Ukraine, even though the majority of the population is against continued arms exports.