
Merz doubles down on gambit with German far right in combative speech | Germany newsthirst.
The German conservative opposition leader, Friedrich Merz, whose party is widely tipped to win this month’s general election, defended his hardline migration proposals after a wave of protests accused him of breaching the time-honoured “firewall” between the far right and centrists. In an uncompromising speech to a party congress of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU)…