CDU
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…
German politician resigns over far-right ties
Robert Möritz, a local politician from the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, surprisingly announced his resignation from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic…
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…
Angela Merkel faces party revolt over Huawei in German 5G rollout
Leading figures in Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have defied the German chancellor by throwing their support behind a motion to…
CDU Congress targeted by Greenpeace
A Greenpeace activist carries a C letter while entering the venue of the Party Congress of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU)…
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…
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.…
German MPs urge Merkel to keep Huawei out of 5G network
A group of MPs from Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is pressing the German chancellor to keep Chinese telecom company…
Elections in eastern Germany could shake Merkel’s coalition
Elections on Sunday in Saxony and neighboring Brandenburg, two federal states in former East Germany, have the entire country holding its breath.…
CiConsulta Election Watch – Germany Regional Elections
German regional elections on Sunday can possibly reshape the political German east, hurt mainstream parties – and possibly catalyse the end of…
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…
SPD insists German coalition Government won’t split over Ursula von der Leyen nomination
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition will not collapse over European Union leaders’ choice of Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen to head the…