For many politicians, the vote breaks a taboo as the AfD lined up with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and the FDP.
However, it is not the first time Vijaralongkorn has been caught doing such actions. Although criticism of the monarchy is taboo in the country, the public anger boomed with a »Why do we need a king?« hashtag which appeared 1.2 million times on Twitter within 24 hours after an activist stated that the king was traveling on holiday in Germany while COVID-19 was spreading across Thailand.
«It cannot be that we say treaty changes are taboo».
Other EU leaders still have to give their backing to the fund at a summit next month and Le Maire predicted difficult talks until then with Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden, where the issue of joint debt is a taboo.
Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo . Busts of Adolf Hitler feature in the exhibition which opens tomorrow at the German History Museum in Berlin REUTERS Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo . A cut-out caricature of Adolf Hitler AP Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo . German Nazi uniforms are displayed at the media preview of the exhibition «Hilter und die Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen» at the Deutsche Historisches Museum in Berlin October 13, 2010.
REUTERS Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo Front pages of the German magazin ‘Der Spiegel’ displaying portraits of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler are pictured during a press preview of ‘Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime’ at Deutsches Historisches Museum on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo. Exhibits with the Nazi swastika are displayed at the media preview of the exhibition «Hilter und die Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen» at the Deutsche Historisches Museum in Berlin October 13, 2010.
REUTERS Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo. Journalists look at busts of Adolf Hitler at a media preview of the exhibition «Hilter und die Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen» at the Deutsche Historisches Museum in Berlin October 13, 2010.
REUTERS Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo Busts of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler are pictured during a press preview of ‘Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime’ at Deutsches Historisches Museum on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo Visitors attend a press preview of ‘Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime’ at Deutsches Historisches Museum on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo n A book with the Nazi swastika is displayed at the media preview of the exhibition «Hilter und die Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen» at the Deutsche Historisches Museum in Berlin October 13, 2010.
REUTERS Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo Portraits of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler and his regime are pictured during a press preview of ‘Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime’ at Deutsches Historisches Museum on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
REUTERS Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo Visitors attend a press preview of ‘Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime’ at Deutsches Historisches Museum on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo A visitor looks on a documentation display during a press preview of ‘Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime’ at Deutsches Historisches Museum on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo Uniforms of Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler and his regime are pictured during a press preview of ‘Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime’ at Deutsches Historisches Museum on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo A visitor looks on a documentation during a press preview of ‘Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime’ at Deutsches Historisches Museum on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo Tin soldiers of the Nazi criminal Adolf Hitler regime are pictured during a press preview of ‘Hitler and the Germans Nation and Crime’ at Deutsches Historisches Museum on October 13, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
Hitler exhibition breaks Germany‘s last taboo Busts of Adolf Hitler are displayed at a media preview of the exhibition «Hilter und die Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen» at the Deutsche Historisches Museum in Berlin October 13, 2010.
A potential coalition between the CDU and AfD is one thing: Both are on the same side of the political spectrum, and there is significant overlap in the pool of voters they draw from, even if there remains a taboo on cooperation because of the AfD’s penchant for xenophobic rhetoric and equivocating on Germany’s responsibility for the crimes of the Nazi era.
There hardly ever needed to be a taboo on cooperation between the two because cooperation seemed inconceivable.
PLIEUX, France — Europe’s taboos are falling away.
The chancellor, speaking in Dortmund on Saturday at an annual gathering of Protestant churches, said rightwing extremism must be fought «without any taboo».
The text of this article was generated by the Breaking The Silence system that collected 13 news articles posted on the web from January 2019 to September 2020 and clustered for the taboo subjects related to Germany
