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Did the CDU just work with the AfD?

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Jörg Luyken
Nov 16, 2022
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An anti-AfD demo in Thuringia. Photo by Tobias on Unsplash

The Story

Something pretty fascinating happened in a remote corner of Germany last week that went almost unnoticed by the outside world.

In the state parliament in Thuringia, the CDU worked with the far-right AfD to pass a motion ‘banning’ gender sensitive language in public institutions. As far …

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