Germany’s CDU/CSU conservative opposition is increasing the pressure on the coalition government in the budget crisis. CDU Secretary General Carsten Linnemann called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the ruling Social Democrats Party (SPD) to call a vote of confidence. “I think it would be better for the Chancellor to put the question of confidence to the German Bundestag,” said Linnemann on the the ZDF TV station on Thursday evening. In a letter, the Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Thorsten Frei, called on the President of the Bundestag, Bärbel Bas, to intervene in the …