The CDU wants to adopt an "immediate program" at the party conference, which is to be implemented immediately after the Bundestag elections when a government is formed. Michael Kappeler/dpa ...

The CDU wants to adopt an "immediate program" at the party conference, which is to be implemented immediately after the federal elections when a government is formed. Michael Kappeler/dpa 33,714 ...

The man likely to lead Germany's ... a speech at the CDU conference in BerlinImage: Michael Kappeler/dpa/picture alliance The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Monday adopted ...

CDU party leader ... of November, in Germany's soccer Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund played against Leipzig at the Dortmund stadium where Friedrich Merz and Saxony's CDU leader Michael Kretschmer ...

The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, a right-wing party that accuses the CDU of being just as feckless ... after the German national election. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) “What no democracy ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

Both parties in the agreement have ruled out governing with the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). CDU, along with its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), won ...

The leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party Friedrich Merz (L), the co-leaders of Germany's social democratic SPD party Saskia Esken (R) and Lars Klingbeil (2nd L) and the ...

Those issues as well as the rise of the far-right AfD party in Germany put pressure on the CDU and the SPD to quickly form a government that froze out the AfD. Merz will face the economic blow of ...

The CDU has been ever-present in Germany’s post-war era and oversaw the reunification of east and west. Yet, at the same time, everything has changed since it was last in power.