Overview
- Five of eight factions in the Vorpommern-Greifswald council approved an AfD motion urging faster progress on a Peenestrom bridge, marking the first AfD motion to secure a majority there.
- The resolution asks CDU district administrator Michael Sack to press for rapid implementation, though opponents say it is largely symbolic because the office holds no approval power.
- Germany’s transport ministry told NDR the project’s total costs now exceed €500 million and requested a cost‑benefit analysis from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
- CDU local leader Jeannette von Busse justified backing the motion by citing residents’ desire for better links to Usedom, as Greens, SPD and Linke criticized the move.
- National CDU figures reaffirmed the party’s ban on cooperation with the AfD, even as internal voices diverge over the stance, highlighting ongoing tensions over local dealings with the AfD.