Germany Forced To Water Down ‘Compulsory’ Military Draft Plans
Conscription proposal sparks unease among ruling coalition members
Conscription proposal sparks unease among ruling coalition members
An FDP membership poll barely came out on the side of remaining in the traffic light coalition.
Liberal-globalist parties start calling for tougher immigration laws
Thuringia’s FDP president’s statements come after CDU chief Friedrich Merz and several leading Thuringian CDU politicians called for cooperation with the AfD at the local and state levels, respectively.
German taxpayers have paid out a total of €132.8 billion to foreign recipients of Hartz IV social welfare aid since 2010.
The coalition crisis shows that the green policies, which are already causing a populist upset in much of Europe, are now creating instability in one of the EU’s most powerful governments.
In addition to the FDP, which is a member of the ruling coalition, opposition parties like the CDU, CSU, and AfD have all rejected the interior minister’s radical plan to overhaul the citizenship law.
The FDP deputy leader trashed his coalition partners’ positions on illegal immigration, energy policy, and their plans to hand out massive sums of money to citizens.
The three parties (SPD, Greens, FDP) that form new Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government have long opposed the current rules, but were hampered by the center-right Union bloc of ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel, which is now in opposition.
A brief round-up of some of the ‘big names’ that are set to head up Germany’s powerful ministries under the new ‘Ampel-Koalition’ formed by the SPD, the Greens, and the FDP.
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