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Looking to lure disillusioned voters away from Germany’s political mid-ground and the ascendant far-right AfD party, the centre-right Christian Social Union (CSU) on Saturday adopted a raft of hot button issues into its 2025 national election platform, topped by a limit on asylum seekers. At its annual conference in the southern city of Augsburg, the CSU, the Bavarian sister party of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), adopted several key motions. These include an upper limit of well under 100,000 asylum applications per year and a fundamental reform of asylum law. Last year, more than…

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