Germany's conservatives: Closer to Merkel or Trump?

Name: Germany's conservatives: Closer to Merkel or Trump?
Uploaded: 2025-02-06T14:11:48.003Z
Duration: 26 min 4 s
Description: Germany’s conservative CDU party is pushing for tough anti-immigration policies – even if it means getting help from the far-right AfD. What does that mean for Germany’s future? Our guests: Kate Brady (Washington Post); Jörg Lau (Zeit); Ralph Bollmann (Faz)

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Germany’s conservative CDU party is pushing for tough anti-immigration policies – even if it means getting help from the far-right AfD. What does that mean for Germany’s future? Our guests: Kate Brady (Washington Post); Jörg Lau (Zeit); Ralph Bollmann (Faz)

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Jörg Lau

editor at the German weekly, Die Zeit, whose reporting focuses on migration.

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Ralph Bollmann

he’s written a biography of Angela Merkel and is editor at the German daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung.

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Kate Brady

reporter for The Washington Post in Berlin focused on German politics.

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