Trump implements threatened tariffs

1280.191 - 1308.551 Damien McGuinness

The reason why Friedrich Merz took this risky decision to put forward such a controversial bill... ...and the risk of possibly the far-right AfD supporting it, which has never happened in modern Germany before... ...is because the AfD are polling at around 20% at the moment. And he argues that in order to take the wind out of their sails... He needs to offer something to AFD voters.