A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

Then German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) speaks at a press conference at the CDU ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...

Germany's important election last week struggled to make the news cycle, even on Germany's own Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's equivalent of Britain's BBC. Especially (but not only) in the ...

Not their first rodeo: We’ve seen the grand coalition before, most recently in former chancellor Angela Merkel’s last term ... more strained when Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) submitted an ...

But Angela Merkel, then the party's overall leader, blocked his path, and after the CDU lost the 2002 election, replaced him as parliamentary leader as well. "He embodied the more traditional ...

And of those, there's a sizable subset who don't believe that the CDU will solve this issue for them, because in their eyes, the Merkel CDU created the problem back in 2025, and hasn't done enough ...

The SPD and CDU/CSU have already governed together four times since World War Two - three times under the leadership of former conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel. Friedrich Merz, however ...

The party almost doubled its support compared to the last election. CDU leader Friedrich Merz, the next chancellor of Germany, has been far from celebratory following his party’s win ...

The party filled the space left by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU which has since shifted towards the political centre. But while the AfD capitalised on Europe’s economic discord ...

For his part, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader and Germany’s likely ... “open door” policies it became synonymous with under Angela Merkel, Merz has vowed to bring the party back ...