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CDU/CSU calls for cannabis rethink 2 years in
Government ministers from Germany 's conservative CDU and CSU parties on Wednesday called for changes to the 2024 partial legalization of cannabis introduced by the previous more left-leaning coalition government.…
Vote for CDU-CSU, Italy’s foreign minister tells Italians living in Germany
Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and his centre-right party Forza Italia urged Italians living in Germany to support the conservative alliance in…
Friedrich Merz:CDU leader sets sights on becoming German chancellor
Squeezed out of top-level politics by his arch party rival Angela Merkel more than two decades ago, Friedrich Merz is on course…
Germany’s CDU hit by major cyberattack
Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was targeted by a large-scale cyberattack on Saturday that forced the opposition party to temporarily take parts…
German conservatives elect right-winger Merz as new party leader
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) on Saturday elected arch-conservative Friedrich Merz their party leader to follow the more centrist…
Germany’s CDU party elects Friedrich Merz, 66, new leader
Germany's centre-right Christian Democrats elected Friedrich Merz their leader to follow Armin Laschet, who lost September's national election to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's…
German CDU leader Laschet offered to stand aside – media
BERLIN, Oct 7 (Reuters) - German conservative leader Armin Laschet offered to make way for a successor after leading his party to…
German coalition talks could get going by mid-Oct – CDU’s Spahn
Germany's political parties should be clear by the middle of October about who will take part in formal coalition talks after the…
Young Germans tired of status quo put faith in Greens, liberals
Germany's pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and Greens could not be further apart on issues like taxation, climate change and fiscal policy, but…
German CDU’s Laschet admits ‘painful losses’ in federal election, insists on coalition talks
Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU) expressed concern on Monday at the scale of the party's defeat in the former Communist East in Sunday's…