Germany's centre-right CDU/CSU bloc pledged tax cuts, reduced immigration, bolstered support for Ukraine and a return of military conscription in a campaign manifesto adopted by party leaders on ...

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance has dropped to just 28% in a new poll, just 19 days before the country votes in one of the most important elections in recent memory. Meanwhile, the formerly ...

Friedrich Merz aims to swiftly form government after his conservative bloc's February 23 election win. SPD leader Lars Klingbeil stressed a coalition with the CDU/CSU ...

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 ...

In Germany, the CDU and CSU Union wants to integrate blockchain technology into public services, Cointelegraph Deutschland reported on June 25. The CDU and CSU Union represents the centre-right ...

The leaders of the two coalition factions of the Bundestag - Jens Spahn from the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) bloc and Matthias Miersch from the Social ...

Germany's conservative bloc, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), has taken the lead in the country's 2025 federal election, according to preliminary results ...

Germany’s center-right CDU/CSU and center-left SPD on Monday signed a 146-page coalition agreement in Berlin that lays out their joint governing program, ahead of a parliamentary vote on CDU leader ...

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz is set to start talks to form a new coalition Merz reiterated his stance on not cooperating with the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD ...

PRAGUE -- The headlines indicate that the far-right AfD party had its best-ever result in the German parliamentary elections, finishing second with some 20 percent of the vote, nearly doubling the ...

On July 11 the executive committees of Germany’s conservative opposition parties, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as “the Union”—adopted ...