The Christian Democrats have prioritized defense spending and supplying more arms to Ukraine. Though the party is popular in ...

CDU/CSU still leads but is losing popularity, SPD and AfD are slightly gaining, according to the latest "Deutschlandtrend" ...

The fragile three-way coalition in the Bundestag has shattered. Olaf Scholz, the chancellor, has lost a vote of confidence ...

Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), firmly rejected any ...

The front-runner to become Germany's next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has called for a common European strategy in view of ...

The German conservative CDU is worried about the coalition talks between its Austrian sister party, the ÖVP, and the ...

In a new interview, CDU leader Friedrich Merz has called for drastic changes to Germany's citizenship reform and suggested ...

Friedrich Merz, head of the Christian Democrats (CDU), is tipped to replace Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose term the conservatives have slammed as "three lost years" for the ...

Marinated in the determinedly pro-European, pro-Western politics of Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the 1990s, he became co-leader of its Bundestag group in 2000, before Angela ...

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) — often collectively referred to as the “Union” — are in pole position to win the ...

The German conservatives of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have included support for Ukraine and a promise to extend sanctions against Russia in their election programme. Source: Spiegel, as ...