For months, two rivals have vied to become the German chancellor candidate of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union and take one step closer to succeeding Angela Merkel. Over the last ...

If all goes well for him, the unprepossessing figure you see here will be the chancellor of Germany by the end of the year. Probably the best way to think of Armin Laschet is as someone with the ...

08:27, Sun, Jun 24, 2018 Updated: 14:21, Sun, Jun 24, 2018 Markus Soder, the Christian Social Union (CSU) prime minister of the German state of Bavaria, weighed in on the immigration row engulfing Mrs ...

German Christian Democratic Union Party Leader Armin Laschet briefs the media after a meeting of the party's board at the headquarters in Berlin, Germany, April 12, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] Angela ...

Last week, 59-year-old Armin Laschet was elected the chairperson of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany’s ruling party. The CDU, along with its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social ...

Politics is often a matter of alternating opposites, as parties and nations choose leaders who seem best able to put right the faults of their predecessor. Thus calm and unifying John Major succeeded ...

Every year, Forbes magazine produces a list of the most powerful women in the world. And in 14 of the past 15 years, it has been the same person - Angela Merkel. German's chancellor has dominated ...

Eine zerstrittene Union hat laut Bayerns Ministerpräsident keine Chance auf Erfolg bei der Bundestagswahl. Es gelte jetzt, Merkels Kurs zu unterstützen. Bayerns Ministerpräsident Markus Söder (CSU) ...

Berlin (Reuters) - Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU), Innenminister Horst Seehofer (CSU) und Bayerns Ministerpräsident Markus Söder pochen auf eine Öffnungsklausel für Bundesländer bei der ...

Berlin (Reuters) - In der Debatte über die Flüchtlingspolitik geht die CSU wieder auf Konfrontationskurs zu Kanzlerin Angela Merkel. Nachdem die Regierungschefin einen nationalen Alleingang bei der ...