Overview
- Germany’s family minister, speaking in Berlin on Tuesday, said she is “allergic to identity politics” and argued the democracy program had become too one-sided.
- Karin Prien pledged to keep the overall budget intact and said new funding guidelines will be published by the end of June.
- About 200 projects are set to lose federal support at the end of the year unless they reapply and meet the new criteria.
- The reorientation would move more work to schools, volunteer fire brigades, sports clubs and libraries rather than a narrow set of activist groups.
- Greens, the Left and parts of the SPD criticized the shift, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz backed it, with groups such as the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, HateAid and the Central Council of Jews listed as affected within a program worth about €190 million this year.