#CDU

Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU) have presented their first-ever joint European election programme, outlining their vision of the EU’s future. In their view, it should include effective counter-terror forces and a Europe-wide military.

 Germany’s Christian Democrats elected Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a moderate former state premier, as their new leader, signaling that despite an underswell of discontent over Angela Merkel’s recent stewardship, the country’s largest party does not intend to break with her centrist policies.

Voters in the southern German state of Bavaria were going to the polls on Sunday in a regional election that could shake the fragile coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

Angela Merkel's speech given to reporters by the governmental press service reads that the chancellor plans to form the stable government as soon as possible in 2018.

Germany's Chancellor has abandoned hopes of creating a so-called 'Jamaica Coalition' with the Greens and center-right Free Democrats; instead she will turn to the tested option of establishing a coalition with the Social Democrats, despite initial misgivings among her fellow Christian Democrats and Bavarian CSU allies.

Disgraced former German President Christian Wulff has been criticized for taking a job with a Turkish clothes shop. German politicians have said the job with fashion retailer Yargici was unbecoming for a former head of state.

Enterprises from the German state of Hessen see potential to invest in Vietnam, heard a conference held by the Economic Council of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Frankfrut am Main on April 24.