In an interview with Roger Schneider from SPIEGEL Politik, Heiko Giebler talks about the CDU's reaction to the mass protests in Berlin, which were organized after the CDU and AfD voted together on the “Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz”. 

Heiko Giebler points out the potential dangers implied by the CDU's strategy: focusing on a one-sided dominant issue, such as migration, could lead to the parties disappearing into ‘insignificance’. Conservative parties in France and Italy have already undergone this development.
Read the Interview here (German; Paywall). 

Also, Steffen Mau (Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of macrosociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) was interviewed in Tagesspiegel+ on the question of how the “Brandmauer” protests can be interpreted. He emphasizes that the ‘staged opposition’ could become a problem for Friedrich Merz. To avoid scenarios like the Austrian coalition negotiations, the democratic parties in Germany need to find a way of dealing with each other, says Steffen Mau.
Read the Interview here (German; Paywall).