Europe live: German parliament debates draft law aimed at controlling migration as Merz seeks to distance himself from AfD
Greens and SPD earlier refused to support the Influx Limitation Act amid fierce criticism from Merkel over Merz’s cooperation with far-right AfD
in Berlin
The Bundestag debate has been delayed for half an hour on request of the CDU, thought to be to do with misgivings within the party over the debate, not least due to large numbers of protesters outside the CDU headquarters in Berlin.
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