Despite owing her rise to centrist Angela Merkel, under whom she served as agriculture minister, Klöckner has consistently ...

Bundestag confirmed Friedrich Merz as Germany's new chancellor in a successful second vote after he unexpectedly lost an initial round earlier on Tuesday. Merz won 325 votes in favour — higher ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU conservative alliance has won Germany's general election with 28.6% of the vote, according to early results after vote counting concluded. At second place was the far ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Allied talk of sending European peacekeeping forces to protect Ukraine as part of a possible peace deal ...

Bundestag president Wolfgang Schäuble has sounded the alarm, telling his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on Tuesday that the ballooning Bundestag is undermining voter confidence in parliament.

CDU and CSU, the latter is only active in Bavaria, the former in the rest of the states, were both founded independently of each other directly after World War II, but formed a parliamentary group ...

The CDU/CSU political parties in the Bundestag condemned the blockade of Ukrainian ports by the Russian Federation, which could result in a tragedy for the whole world. German deputies called on NATO, ...

BERLIN — Norbert Röttgen, the chair of the Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee, will run for leadership of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU), his office said on Tuesday. Current CDU leader ...

Merz previously held the position of the chairman of the united CDU/CSU faction during the last legislative period from 2000 to 2002. On February 23, Germany held early Bundestag elections.

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Armin Laschet is facing calls to cut loose a former spy chief and Bundestag hopeful who has demanded background checks for public television journalists.

Merkel, then CDU secretary general, said Kohl, who had accepted a cash donation from sources he refused to reveal, had hurt the party. The CDU moved on without him.