The government has known about the weakening state of school-building concrete for years, but has given less than a week’s notice for lockdown-like online lessons now.
Angela Merkel successfully transformed the classical-conservative CDU of Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl into a socialist party, and turned the party establishment into a real left-wing establishment.
CDU Friedrich Merz conducted some political spring cleaning this week as he removed a former Merkel loyalist from the party’s ruling committee in favour of a conservative alternative as the German conservatives ponder the rise of the AfD.
