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3 days ago · The CDU is the second largest party in the Bundestag, the German federal legislature, with 152 out of 736 seats, having won 18.9% of votes in the 2021 federal election. It forms the CDU/CSU Bundestag faction, also known as the Union, with its Bavarian counterpart, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). The group's parliamentary leader is ...
- 26 June 1945; 78 years ago
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3 days ago · From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a new founded Christian-democratic party, which became the dominant force in the country under his leadership. As a devout Roman Catholic , Adenauer was a leading politician of the Catholic Centre Party in the Weimar Republic , serving as Mayor of Cologne (1917 ...
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3 days ago · Angela Merkel. Angela Dorothea Merkel ( German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ⓘ; [a] née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician and chemist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 and was the first woman to hold that office. She previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as ...
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6 days ago · Germany’s centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) will adopt a new party programme today that marks a return to conservative principles after the centrist Merkel years, writes Guy Chazan. Context ...
May 6, 2024 · Members of Germany's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) have re-elected conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz to another two-year term as the party's chairman. Merz, 68, received just ...
5 days ago · Berlin and Brussels should share some of the blame for Brexit, German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz said. In an interview with the Financial Times, the leader of Germany’s main opposition party hinted the former German chancellor — fellow Christian Democrat Angela Merkel ...
Apr 28, 2024 · The German government needs to respond to a recent speech on Europe's future given by French President Emmanuel Macron, the head of the largest opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union ...
