German voters decide on 23 February who will run their next government, with Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian ...

Christian Democratic Union will neither enter coalition talks with the AfD nor form a minority government, ex-chairman Armin ...

Over the past decade and beyond, the CDU has undergone a significant identity shift under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Following the controversial Bundestag votes on migration policy, the CSU and CDU Union parties are trying to distance ...

The latter unsuccessfully battled then-CDU leader Armin Laschet for the nomination in 2021 and was forced to back off despite his high popularity ratings. Laschet famously went on to lose the ...

German party CDU may once again turn to the far-right for support in an upcoming immigration vote.

Among CDU supporters a coalition with the FDP (36%) or the SPD (32%) are the most popular. Only 8% are in favor of a coalition with the Greens, and only 6% want to form a coalition with the AfD.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, also in the SPD, said Merz's decisions this week "shamed the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and damaged democracy as a whole." Protesters urge Merz to ...

Frontrunner in bid to become chancellor criticised for relying on AfD to pass parliamentary motion on migration laws ...

Mr Merz is more popular than Armin Laschet, the previous cdu/csu candidate, and Mr Scholz is both better known and less liked today. Just 8% of Germans think the spd is best placed to manage the ...