Three seats need filling in Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, but disagreement between the CDU and SPD has caused a ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

Speaking of Germany, here’s an interesting piece from Foreign Policy characterizing conservative politics in that country as “a Christian civil war.” It begins by saying that Angela Merkel ...

This is the first of a two-part article on the political career of Angela Merkel, leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and chancellor candidate of the "Union"--the conservative ...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country's leading opposition party, has been hit by a major cyberattack and has taken parts of its IT-infrastructure off the grid as a precautionary ...

The right-wing Alternative for Germany party surged in elections Sunday in two states in the nation's former communist east, but it failed to take first place as had been predicted in pre-vote po.

Even without the off-balance-sheet trickery, Germany is set to borrow €82 billion this year: no small sum given the country’s ...

Germany's Defense Minister and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer delivers a speech during the party's convention in Leipzig, Germany, Nov. 22, 2019. (Xinhua ...

News about Christian Democratic Union (Germany). Commentary and archival information about Christian Democratic Union (Germany) from The New York Times.

Germany’s biggest opposition party, the center-right Christian Democratic Union of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, says members have have chosen prominent conservative Friedrich Merz as its new ...

News about Christian Democratic Union (Germany). Commentary and archival information about Christian Democratic Union (Germany) from The New York Times.

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—collectively known as the Union—took power after securing the largest block of votes in ...