The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Social ...

Despite hefty criticism from the Greens, Germany's conservative CDU/CSU and centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) are still ...

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU bloc, which won last week's elections, and the Social Democrats plan to begin initial exploratory talks on Friday about the possibility of forming a coalition government ...

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...

The general secretary of the CDU, Carsten Linnemann, described the ideas put forward by the Greens as "constructive proposals." SPD co-leader Lars Klingbeil also said he is "not giving up ...

The CDU and SPD, likely coalition partners in Germany's next government, want to relax the debt brake for spending on defense ...

Van Aken wants to tax the rich more to finance climate initiatives. The CDU's Linnemann criticized a heating law backed by the now fractured German governing coalition of the SPD, FDP and Greens ...

“Otherwise, in four years the fringes will be so strong they can govern,” said Carsten Linnemann, CDU general secretary, “and we don’t want that.” ...

CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann also announced that negotiations would take place with the Greens on Monday. The Greens party has traditionally been open to reforming the debt brake and ...

Centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Secretary General Carsten Linnemann says his party, together with sister party Christian Social Union (CSU), will pursue a policy of setting new ...