The head of the conservative opposition party in the federal government has set clear limits as to how much his party, would be able to compromise with the newly formed populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). Christian Democrats (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz, speaking on a programme on the public broadcaster ARD, was referring to coalition talks in three east German states, in which the CDU and the BSW did well. “‘Ms. Wagenknecht has to accept that there are decisions that are irrevocable,” Merz said on the ARD programme Caren Miosga. One of those is “the commitment to the West, that is NATO …