German election: CDU manifesto proposes rightward shift on migration and strong support for Ukraine

Germany’s largest opposition party is heavily favoured to form a government after snap elections slated for February 2025.

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00:00CDU leader and top candidate Friedrich Merz promised to save 100 billion euros by drastically

00:08reducing the welfare state and by curbing Germany's migration policies.

00:13Merz, alongside sister party CSU leader Markus Söder, vowed to prioritise drawing Germany

00:19out of a recession and a tougher stance on crime and to row back on several of the Ample

00:24Coalition's policies such as cannabis legalisation and the dual citizenship reforms.

00:30Merz and Söder strongly criticised the Greens and the Alternative for Germany and said that

00:35CDU would be focused on implementing policies that were neither left nor woke.

00:41According to the latest polls, the CDU are currently in the lead with around 30% and

00:46the most likely outcome from the elections that take place in just over two months will

00:51be a coalition between the CDU and the Social Democrats, but a lot can change between now

00:56and then.

00:57Liv Stroud, in Berlin, for Euronews.