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Germany's hard-right AfD party has vowed a total closure of borders ... surrounding her party in recent years. The conservative CDU/CSU is leading at 31 per cent while Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

The party views itself as the line in modern Germany’s political sand. Reiner Haseloff, CDU leader of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, recently called this the “foundation myth” of his party, “ruling out” ...

Clemens Bilan/EPA-EFE Germany’s conservatives are leading the polls with 30 percent — putting Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in pole position to become the next chancellor — ...

BERLIN - Germany will hold a snap national election ... while the SPD and Greens support debt-financed state subsidies. The CDU and AfD also propose assessing a return to nuclear power, an idea ...

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Germany has two centrist ... while the SPD and Greens support debt-financed state subsidies. The CDU and AfD also propose assessing a return to nuclear power, an idea rejected by the SPD and ...

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Friedrich Merz, candidate for German Chancellor and party chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), arrives at the winter retreat of the CDU federal executive at the Design Offices Hamburg ...

But democrats are panicking," says Arzheimer. All mainstream political parties in Germany rule out formally working with the AfD. The CDU's own party constitution even forbids governing in ...

The protests passed peacefully, with banners saying, "Nazis out" or "AfD is not an alternative," a reference to the far-right party's full name "Alternative for Germany." The CDU's Merz also came ...

HENNIGSDORF, Germany (CN) — In the eyes of roughly 20% of German ... next four or five years we'll see the first coalition government with the AfD," said Herold. Merz's CDU, which is currently polling ...