Tag: German CDU

German CDU Rejects Calls for Joint EU Loans

Germany’s aspiring chancellor pledges that his party—and the European People’s Party—will do “everything” to prevent the Union from “spiraling into debt.”

Merz Open to CDU-AfD Cooperation at Local Level

Merz’s apparent dismantling of his party’s firewall against the AfD at the local level comes just days after an opinion poll revealed that support for the anti-globalist party, once again, reached a new all-time high, at 22% of the national vote—just four percentage points behind the CDU.

AfD Ascent Prompts Conservative Reshuffling in CDU

CDU Friedrich Merz conducted some political spring cleaning this week as he removed a former Merkel loyalist from the party’s ruling committee in favour of a conservative alternative as the German conservatives ponder the rise of the AfD.