There's a magazine printed in Germany for political culture....called 'Cicero'. It's named after the famous Roman statesman, who passed on around 43 BC. He generally offered advice and reasoning into arguments. For the most part, that's what this magazine does.
I won't say that this is a top ten type reading material, but politicians generally read it and quote off it.
So in the September issue coming up....they did an interview with the Saarland Premier President (Governor of the Saarland). It's a CDU guy....Tobias Hans.
So Hans was asked about the CDU Party and where it lies right now.
He's kinda blunt. He references the 'soul of the party', and suggested that under Merkel....there's been this 'drain on meaning'. As he points out....various debates have occurred over the past decade, and various members of the party have felt left-behind.
At some point in the article....he goes on to talk about 2015/2016 period with the refugee crisis in full bloom, and the lack of decision-making being obvious.
He comes to this comment that I've often written into essays....that a search is often made for great all-solution type immigration answer to be created under the EU umbrella, with months wasted on this search, and it's mostly a failed solution.
In various ways, the CDU is mostly hanging together as one single group because of the success of Merkel, but it's also forged with various groups who see this Merkel success as the only way the party survived.
A turbulent period of change coming up in 2021's election? Yes. A lot will be discussed over the Merkel era, and how anger built up within her own party.....with the general public desiring some massive shift.
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