
Anything But AfD: CDU Opens Debate on Cooperation With Far Left
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.

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.

There is a direct link between our establishment’s struggle against social media and ‘fake news’ and the growing perception of politicians as dishonest.

Calls by CDU premier Daniel Günther to ban critical media are not an aberration but a symptom of a political culture in which dissent is treated as a problem to be eliminated.