Markus Söder, the boss of Bavaria's centre-right Christian Social Union (CSU), claimed a share of the credit for the nationwide election victory on Sunday by the conservative bloc made up of his CSU ...
Under the terms of an imminent coalition agreement, Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to control the Foreign Office for the first time in almost 60 years, dpa learnt on ...
Polls opened at 8 a.m. (0700 UTC) and closed at 6 p.m. Latest projections put CDU/CSU at 29%, the right-wing populist AfD at around 19.5%, and Chancellor Scholz's SPD at 16% The AfD is shunned by ...
BERLIN — The Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, have few options in front ...
Germany’s conservative Christian Democrat-led bloc secured 208 out of 630 seats in the lower house of parliament, meaning its leader, Friedrich Merz, will have to navigate complicated coalition ...
Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU), its more openly right-wing Bavarian affiliate, announced the names of their ministers in the incoming federal ...
An alliance between Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the center-left SPD is the only viable path to form a new government for Germany. While the parties are bitter rivals, they have cooperated in ...