Among CDU supporters a coalition with the FDP (36%) or the SPD (32%) are the most popular. Only 8% are in favor of a coalition with the Greens, and only 6% want to form a coalition with the AfD.

On Wednesday, the CDU passed a nonbinding motion on migration with the help of the AfD, shattering a taboo in modern German politics. Over 150,000 people rally against conservatives in Berlin ...

A pho­to­graph accom­pa­ny­ing an art­icle on Janu­ary 31 showed mem­bers of Ger­many’s CDU party applaud­ing Friedrich Merz, not mem­bers of the AfD as wrongly stated in the cap­tion.

Organisers expect tens of thousands of people to turn up at 3:30pm (14:30 GMT) outside the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament building, and march towards the headquarters of the conservative CDU party.

Clemens Bilan/EPA-EFE Germany’s conservatives are leading the polls with 30 percent — putting Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in pole position to become the next chancellor — ...

But with demonstrators carrying placards and banners denouncing the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party arriving "from every direction", a police spokeswoman said that tally "could ...

Well-known sports broadcaster Craig Carton went so far as to say the Chiefs' break has been too long, and the Texans' defense is too feisty--and that Houston would pull off what would be a ...

However, a possible new government under the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and its candidate for the chancellorship, Friedrich Merz, seems poised to exacerbate divisions rather than resolving them ...

a new record for a party that has already shattered a decades-old taboo against the far right in postwar Germany. The mainstream conservative grouping CDU/CSU leads on about 30pc.

The conservative CDU/CSU alliance leads in the polls with around 30 per cent, followed by the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) at 20 per cent. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ...

On Friday, Merz, the CDU/CSU’s candidate for chancellor, attempted to advance the immigration bill in the lower house of parliament but was unsuccessful in securing a majority. Some members of ...

Given its comfortable poll lead, however, his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and other centre-right parties framed the 69-year-old chancellor hopeful as an important signal for a stronger Europe ...