Protests against Union: 250,000 people set a sign of diversity!

Protests against Union: 250,000 people set a sign of diversity!

Berlin, Deutschland - in Berlin there was a massive demonstration on February 2, 2025, which flooded the streets with an estimated 160,000 to 250,000 participants. The protest was part of a nationwide movement that was directed against the cooperation between the CDU and AfD in the Bundestag. This had supported an application to tighten migration policy, which caused outrage in public. The demonstration ran from the iconic victory column to the CDU party center and was under the motto "Uprising of the decent-we are the fire wall!" Organized, as Vol.at reported.

parallel to the protests in Berlin, numerous demonstrations also took place in other cities. In Cologne, for example, water sports enthusiasts started to move with 350 boats on the Rhine and held banners with slogans such as "Colorful instead of brown" and "for democracy and diversity". This innovative campaign was a premiere and attracted a total of around 1,000 people, according to the water protection police. Also in cities such as Bonn, Regensburg, and Stuttgart, thousands went on the streets to send a clear signal against a law in politics, as The criticism of the CDU, which exceeded a historical border with the AfD, was also strong in the discussion. Former EKD council chairman Heinrich Bedford-Strohm commented and demanded that such a vote should never be done again. While CDU Chancellor candidate Merz tried to justify the situation, the mood among the demonstrators remained tense because they considered the union to collaboration with the AfD as incompatible with democratic values. This illustrates how critically the situation for political actors in Germany is and how strongly resistance grows in the population.