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What is the point of the CDU?

Germany's centre-right party has strayed from its ideals

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Jörg Luyken
Mar 20, 2025
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CDU/ Tim Hoffmann

Dear Reader,

I’ve written a few times in the past couple of weeks about the deception that the CDU carried out in pretending that they would finance the modernisation of the army and the country’s dilapidated infrastructure via welfare reform and spending cuts.

The lies that Friedrich Merz and his party told ahead of the election are so g…

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