Overview
- Berlin’s CDU state board approved a resolution seeking legal bans on entities pursuing or cooperating with left‑extremist goals and tighter oversight of grants.
- The party says projects with extremist ties should be denied public funding and current funding rules should be strengthened.
- It calls for better equipment and resources for the Berlin domestic intelligence service and the LKA to detect and prevent threats earlier.
- The CDU proposes bolstering prevention, physical protection, IT security and crisis response for critical infrastructure.
- The initiative is tied to a suspected left‑wing arson in early January that caused a multi‑day outage affecting more than 100,000 people, which party leaders describe as a new, more professional level of violence and use to criticize the Left Party and Berlin Greens.