A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

The conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group of Christian Democratic (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz intends to propose experienced politician Julia Klöckner to be the next Bundestag president later ...

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

Not their first rodeo: We’ve seen the grand coalition before, most recently in former chancellor Angela Merkel’s last term ... more strained when Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) submitted an ...

But Angela Merkel, then the party's overall leader, blocked his path, and after the CDU lost the 2002 election, replaced him as parliamentary leader as well. "He embodied the more traditional ...

And of those, there's a sizable subset who don't believe that the CDU will solve this issue for them, because in their eyes, the Merkel CDU created the problem back in 2025, and hasn't done enough ...

The SPD and CDU/CSU have already governed together four times since World War Two - three times under the leadership of former conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel. Friedrich Merz, however ...

And only secondarily on the state", Resing said. Merz launched his political comeback after Merkel stepped down as CDU leader in 2018 and announced that she wouldn't seek a fifth term of chancellor.

The party filled the space left by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU which has since shifted towards the political centre. But while the AfD capitalised on Europe’s economic discord ...

For his part, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader and Germany’s likely ... “open door” policies it became synonymous with under Angela Merkel, Merz has vowed to bring the party back ...