The
German parliament has narrowly passed a motion calling for radical tightening
of the country’s immigration and asylum rules (16:45 and 16:59) after a series
of recent knife attacks. The non-binding motion (17:11), proposed by the main
opposition party CDU/CSU which is on course to win the next month’s
parliamentary election, was backed by the far-right Alternative für Deutschland
party. It was the first time in the history of the federal German parliament
that a motion backed by the far-right was adopted, breaking a longstanding
taboo (“firewall”) on cooperation with the anti-immigration party. AfD leader
Alice Weidel called it a “historic day for Germany” (18:47)
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