The joint election manifesto for the Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU) includes security guarantees for Ukraine that Germany could make good on ...

Vote for CDU-CSU, Italy's Foreign Minister Tells Italians Living in Germany ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and his centre-right party Forza Italia on Tuesday urged ...

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, also in the SPD, said Merz's decisions this week "shamed the conservative CDU/CSU alliance and damaged democracy as a whole." Protesters urge Merz to ...

The AfD and the FDP are fierce defenders of the limit on public borrowing. The CDU/CSU manifesto has proposed extensive financial relief for companies and citizens, including income and corporate ...

The rally in the German capital comes in the wake of the conservative CDU/CSU leaning on the support of the far-right AfD in parliament to push through a migration bill. Protesters chanted "Shame ...

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU, have put together two motions aimed at toughening up migration and internal security policy, which are set to be voted ...

with the CDU/CSU making up the lion’s share of a coalition (including the SD). The chances of the CDU engaging the AfD in talks on a coalition are close to zero in our view. A Merz led ...

The mainstream conservative CDU/CSU alliance leads with about 30%, with CDU leader Friedrich Merz the favorite to become chancellor after the elections. Musk, a close associate of U.S. President ...

Friedrich Merz’s center-right CDU/CSU alliance was in first place with 29% backing in the latest Insa survey for Bild am Sonntag newspaper, down one percentage point from the previous week.

In its manifesto, the CDU/CSU says it wants to stop “governments deciding what kind of boilers people put in their cellars . . . We will promote low-emission heating solutions ...

Germany's alliance of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) is leading in polls, but with a thinning margin over the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).