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 ...

Friedrich Merz (L), Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, speaks next to Markus Soeder, Minister President of Bavaria and chairman ...

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 ...

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 ...

Young CDU lawmakers threatened to tank the reform, putting strain on the coalition. A final vote comes Friday. Meanwhile, an AfD councillor has been kicked out of the party for a speech he gave. DW ...

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 ...

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 ...

Germany's Centre Right Alliance (CDU/CSU) managed to secure the most seats in the country's parliamentary election on Sunday, suggesting a more innovation-friendly environment awaits. Friedrich Merz's ...

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 ...

IT WAS SUPPOSED to be easy for Armin Laschet. The candidate of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), to succeed Angela Merkel in ...