Israel should be invited to join NATO

Dr. Hans-Georg Maassen is founder of a new German political party. He was President of the German internal security service (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) from 2012 to 2018. He was let go by Chancellor Angela Merkel in October 2018 for contradicting her. On February 17, 2024, he founded a new German conservative party, the Values Union (“WerteUnion”) out of the former conservative grouping within the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with around 4,400 members. The Values Union aims to fill the gap between the CDU and the right-wing AfD party, and says its goal is to restore a stable conservative government to Germany.

On Feb. 17, 2024, my fellow conservatives and I founded a new German party called the Values Union (“WerteUnion”) dedicated to restoring common sense to German politics.

After 46 years in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), I did not take this step lightly.

But after years of struggles, we had to realize that the CDU does not stand for conservative values anymore.

Angela Merkel opened the German borders to mass immigration from mainly Muslim countries and took the CDU far to the left. The CDU is no longer the opposition to the socialist parties, but has become just another socialist party, in the opposition.

The CDU party leadership spends more time fighting conservatives within their own ranks than the leftist government. They show no sign of reaching out to the many people disappointed with the disastrous leftward course Germany has taken, but instead are busy erecting “firewalls” against people they call “right-wing”. READ MORE