Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Leaderless Germany needs to step up

This article by Matthew Bugeja was first published on this week's edition of Diplomatique.Expert, Corporate Dispatch's eJournal. This is one of those stories that a lot of people are not…

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Merkel’s chosen successor Kramp-Karrenbauer will not run for chancellor, to resign from party leader

The party leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said she will not run for chancellor. She will also step down from as party leader. Kramp-Karrenbauer surprised party leadership on…

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Leadership of CDU in doubt

The question of who will succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor was left hanging in the balance after her anointed successor signalled that she could step down. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has…

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CDU leader wants Merkel to stay until 2021

There is no reason for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to leave office before her planned departure in 2021, her protegee and would-be successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said as they both…

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Germany’s centre parties nervous ahead of election in the East

Sunday will see another state election whose results will be pored over by pundits for signs about the future of German politics. The eastern German state of Thuringia is getting…

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CDU leader Kramp-Karrenbauer appointed German defence minister

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, leader of the German Christian Democrats, has been named as the country’s new defence minister, just as the previous holder of the post Ursula von der Leyen was…

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CDU leader warns against blocking von der Leyen nomination

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, head of Merkel's Christian Democrat party (CDU), warned her junior coalition partners against blocking the appointment of a German, Ursula von der Leyen, to head the European Commission,…

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