One reason is that Bavaria's conservative Christian Socialist Union (CSU) and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won large numbers of seats and neither party has a women's quota.

party saw particular support in the former East Germany, as high as 46.7 per cent in some areas. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a centrist conservative party in coalition with the Christian ...

WITH a Nazi grandfather guilty of crimes against humanity, controversial German politician Beatrix von Storch knows only too ...

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“And when you look to Asia, I think, the Asian image of Germany is Bavaria. So ... Gina Lewandowski and Sarah Hagen from the USA in our women’s team, and we have just loaned Ana Guzman ...

The conservative CDU led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's 2025 election ... west and north. In Bavaria, the CSU won all 47 constituencies. For the first time in an election, the AfD won the ...

For weeks, Friedrich Merz appeared to be cruising towards his life-long dream of becoming Germany’s chancellor ... stabbed a toddler and an adult in Bavaria last month, the leader of the ...

A recent analysis by the Federal Labour Agency found that without migrants, Germany would have suffered a net loss of 209,000 jobs between September 2023 and September 2024. In the state of Bavaria ..

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Markus Söder, leader of the CSU and premier of Bavaria, has repeatedly dismissed the prospect ... Germany’s likely next chancellor and his main rival? Both give women voters the ick Germany’s ...

While Carnival, or Fasching, is celebrated across Germany, certain regions showcase particularly unique traditions. As a predominantly Catholic celebration, it thrives in Bavaria ... the legendary ...