{"id":137136,"date":"2025-01-31T07:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/merkel-criticises-leader-of-her-own-party-for-cooperating-with-german-far-right\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T07:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:35:25","slug":"merkel-criticises-leader-of-her-own-party-for-cooperating-with-german-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/merkel-criticises-leader-of-her-own-party-for-cooperating-with-german-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel criticises leader of her own party for cooperating with German far right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137136\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country&#8217;s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control with the help of the far right. &#8221;I believe it is wrong,&#8221; Merkel said, referring to the outcome of a vote in parliament on Wednesday when a Christian Democrat motion was passed with support from the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD), breaking a long-held political taboo in Germany.<br \/>\nAdvertisement \u00b7 Scroll to continue<\/p>\n<p>Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg, who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, returned his Federal Order of Merit medal to the German state in protest, while Michel Friedman, a Jewish community leader and member of the CDU&#8217;s presidency in the 1990s quit the party. Berlin mayor Kai Wegener, a fellow conservative, also indicated dissatisfaction. &#8221;With me &#8211; you can rely on it &#8211; there will never be cooperation or a coalition with the far-right,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Democrat leader Merz, frontrunner to become Chancellor after the Feb. 23 election, rejected suggestions he had breached mainstream parties&#8217; &#8221;firewall&#8221; against the AfD, saying his bill was necessary, regardless of who chose to back it. In a rare intervention into domestic politics, Merkel accused Merz of going back on a vow he made in November to seek majorities with mainstream parties rather than with the AfD.<\/p>\n<p>She urged &#8221;democratic parties&#8221; to work together to prevent violent attacks like those recently seen in Magdeburg and Aschaffenburg. In both instances, the suspects had applied for asylum in Germany, bringing border and asylum policy into sharp focus in the election campaign.<br \/>\nThe AfD, which is polling second in most surveys behind Merz&#8217;s conservative bloc, is being monitored by German security services on suspicion of right-wing extremism.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/merkel-criticises-leader-her-cdu-party-cooperating-with-german-far-right-2025-01-30\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/merkel-criticises-leader-of-her-own-party-for-cooperating-with-german-far-right\/\">Merkel criticises leader of her own party for cooperating with German far right<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,15939,5940],"class_list":["post-137136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-german-far-right","tag-merkel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}