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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...