Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU will choose a new leader at a special congress on April 25th, sources told AFP on Monday, as the party scrambles to prepare for the veteran German chancellor's departure.
The search for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's eventual successor begins in earnest this week, as her centre-right CDU party opens the race to elect a new leader after her heir apparent stepped down.
After the CDU leader's shocking announced departure following the Thuringia vote debacle, we look at where the party goes from here, what it means for Merkel and if it will ever team up with the far-right.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party and her plans to stay on until 2021 were plunged into disarray Monday after her heir-apparent gave up her leadership ambitions in a deepening crisis over ties between the centre and far right.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the
under-fire leader of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, said she
would step down if she did not have the backing of the party, in a defiant conference speech on Friday.
Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats
(CDU) open their two-day party conference on Friday amid mutinous grumblings
over the leadership of party chairman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU braces for a tumultuous two-day party congress in Leipzig from Friday,
with members smarting from recent local election drubbings and bickering over
her successor.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government was sharply divided Tuesday by defence minister Annegret
Kramp-Karrenbauer's surprise call for international troops to secure northeast Syria.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's favoured successor joined her cabinet Wednesday as defence minister, a high-profile job often called a poisoned chalice in Berlin's fraught political landscape.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's favoured successor and the head of her CDU party will become the country's next Defence Minister in a surprise move, after Ursula von der Leyen was elected European Commission president.
Germany's Social Democrats could end up deciding if the country faces snap elections, the leader of Angela Merkel's party said Monday, after her junior coalition partner sank into chaos over the resignation of its leader.
Parties in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government are set to hold separate crisis talks on Monday, after her fragile coalition suffered a fresh blow as the leader of junior partner SPD quit.
The leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has come under fire after she proposed a debate be held over whether opinions expressed before an election should face regulation.
A YouTube video calling out the German government for “gross incompetence” has gone viral – and provoked angry responses from leading politicians.
Rumours of Angela Merkel's imminent departure are continuing to circulate. But one expert tells The Local why obituaries are being written long before the patient has gasped her final breath.
The new leader of the Christian Democrats (CDU) announced on Monday that she was calling the heads of the party to an extraordinary meeting in Berlin, intensifying speculation that Angela Merkel’s days as Chancellor are numbered.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday backed key European reform ideas from her presumptive heir, including a single EU seat in the UN Security Council and a joint aircraft carrier.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's anointed successor outlined her vision for Europe, a German paper reported on Saturday, aligning with recent French proposals on security but disagreeing on key social issues.
From Merkel’s successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer defending her contentious carnival toilet joke to leaders attacking right-wing populism, there wasn’t a dull moment during Germany's political Ash Wednesday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's anointed successor, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, faced harsh criticism Monday over a carnival joke that ridiculed intersex people.
The victory in a party leadership battle of a close ally of Angela Merkel greatly boosts her chances of seeing out her
fourth term, but 2019 will bring new threats for the world's most powerful woman.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on Friday won a party vote to succeed the veteran leader at the helm of the centre-right CDU.
A loyal ally and two fierce critics are among the contenders to succeed Germany's Angela Merkel as head of the centre-right CDU party and secure a future shot at becoming chancellor.
Here's a look at the top candidates.
