Merz says Netanyahu will be able to visit Germany despite ICC warrant
ICC says states cannot determine ‘soundness’ of its decisions as Israeli PM faces warrant on Gaza war crime allegations.
ICC says states cannot determine ‘soundness’ of its decisions as Israeli PM faces warrant on Gaza war crime allegations.
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So are these people Nazis like the AfD? Anytime I see "Christian" in a political groups' name, I assume they're bloodthirsty racist fuckbags.
They're just a regular conservative party, the pivot to being bloodthirsty racist fuckbags is somewhat recent. Angela Merkel was in this party as well and she was pretty open to immigration and specifically hates the current party chief.
Merkel herself was a bit of an outlier for the CDU though. Most of the party is and has been more conservative/further right than her.
While there's some truth to that, Merz is definitely part of the party's right wing. There are quite a few regional CDU politicians who happily govern in coalitions with the Greens.
After WWII, German fascists who had nowhere else to go were absorbed by the right parties (unlike in other European countries where the far right was present but fringe). It’s only now that the AfD has broken out into the open, but fascist-leaning sentiment has been at least a small part of the CDU forever.