Merkel’s critics have just got started – opinion
Die Welt
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives have begun an internal conflict over immigration policy that points at deeper rifts between Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party CSU, Ulf Poschardt writes in Die Welt. Merkel has “developed a callousness that lets her shrug off any criticism,” Poschardt says. “The energy transition, the failed Jamaica coalition talks and the refugee policies,” as well as the parties’ poor election result have been “consigned to silence by the Chancellery.” Poschardt says this is why the CSU has led the latest argument “so fiercely and axiomatically,” as it tries to put Merkel on the spot.
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