Germany's Merz attacks AfD in stormy debate after far-right election win

Repeatedly heckled by AfD MPs, the chancellor told Weidel that one in six skilled workers had a migration background, and if her party had its way then its policy would amount to "nothing other than an ethnic cleansing in the skilled trades based on skin colour and origin". While the government understood some deportations were needed, he said it made a careful distinction between those who contributed to German prosperity and those without permanent residency. Disruption by AfD MPs became so loud that at one point Bundestag President Julia Klöckner threatened to start expelling people from the chamber: "We are...