[Updated on 30 June at 10.00] Germany’s lesbians and gays received the right to wed on Friday (30 June), when a snap vote on the issue was held in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
But their gain was the result of political machinations, whose broader ramifications remain to be seen.
At the heart of this house of cards is Angela Merkel.
In a move that surprised Germans and her own centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, the chancellor reversed her lo...
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