However, with Merz’s attempts to move the CDU further to the right than it was under Merkel’s leadership, the two parties could clash on issues such as immigration and welfare spending.

The basics of policy put forward by the CDU-CSU candidate for chancellor ... Horst Seehofer, described Merkel's asylum policy as a "reign of injustice." Seehofer was not the only one though ...

But the CDU didn’t choose him—at least, not at first. Twice, it picked centrists in the mold of Merkel. But the party kept losing electoral ground. Finally, in 2022, its members saw fit to ...

leader of the CDU/CSU alliance, will take office in a particularly unstable context. Germany's famed stability, on which Angela Merkel based a 16-year reign, is now a thing of the past.

where his mentor was the late CDU powerbroker Wolfgang Schaeuble. After chancellor Helmut Kohl's long reign ended in a slush fund scandal, Merkel soon sidelined Merz to take over the party and ...

The vote immediately provoked a storm of condemnation, including from within the CDU, with Merkel taking a critical stance. It also triggered large-scale demonstrations in several cities across ...

Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU has 208 out of 630 seats in the new Bundestag. Klöckner was Federal Minister of Agriculture in the last cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU ...

Early exit polls cited by multiple outlets project the CDU—the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel—is expected to get the highest share of votes in this election, likely positioning its ...

According to the exit polls, it looks likely former chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party will win power under new leader Friedrich Merz. “This is a very controversial issue, as we’ve heard ...

a nod to decisions made a decade ago by Angela Merkel, then CDU chancellor. On other leading campaign issues – growth, defence, foreign policy – German voters view the CDU as the most ...

So far, only one party has picked a candidate to lead it into the vote: the Social Democrats (CDU) with Olaf Scholz, who currently serves as Chancellor Merkel's deputy in a coalition with her ...