There is one thing that Friedrich Merz really shouldn’t be accused of. Unlike Angela Merkel, it will probably not often be said that he thought things through from the end. At least that’s the impression you get when you consider two decisions made at the CDU party conference over the weekend: the women’s quota and the compulsory social year.

It had started so well.

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