PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, January 30: Friedrich Merz, Germany's conservative CDU leader and candidate for chancellorship, receives votes and applause from the far-right AfD party in the Bundestag – we look at the press reaction to the centre right breaking the taboo on working with the far right. Also, with a growing crime rate and overcrowded prisons, Sweden proposes sending detainees to foreign jails. Finally, does the polar bear hold the key to replacing certain toxic PFAS chemicals?
