Political deadlock comes after Merkel’s intervention – analysis
Kate Connolly
in Berlin
The CDU’s parliamentary secretary Thorsten Frei requested the interruption to the plenary session this morning to enable a meeting of the Union faction which was supposed to take half an hour.
Well over an hour since that break was called, we are hearing that the Union is negotiating behind the scenes with both the SPD and the Greens about the possibility of getting a majority without the AfD, by amending…