CDU mayor donated €10,000 to AfD, embarrassing his own party's leadership

Bernd Prange, a CDU mayor in Germany, donated €10,000 to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, placing his own party's leadership in an awkward position. The donation contradicts the CDU's official policy of maintaining a firewall against cooperation with the AfD. The incident exposes tensions within German conservatism over how to handle the rise of the far right.