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- The Foundation for Flight, Expulsion and Reconciliation has elected historian Gundula Bavendamm as its director.
- The federal government is calling on the silent majority in the center to no longer remain silent and to demand a "new culture of contradiction".
- In Saxony, there is a lack of self-confident citizens in uniform, which can be attributed to the CDU, which has been in power since reunification.
- Top CDU candidates in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate are calling for "day-to-day contingents" in the admission of refugees, which is meeting with criticism within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.
- The health fund and the pension insurance have to pay penalty interest to banks due to the ECB's low-interest-rate policy.