Tag: Christian Democratic Union (Germany)

• Monday, October 15th 2018 - 07:17 UTC

  Bavaria's CSU loses its majority in regional election; blow for Merkel's coalition

  

  Angela Merkel's sister party has suffered massive losses in Bavaria's state elections, exit polls suggest, in a blow to the German chancellor. The CSU is set to lose its absolute majority in the state parliament, while the Greens surged into second place and the anti-immigration AfD entered the state parliament for the first time.

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 17:39 UTC

  Merkel to seek fourth term as German chancellor

  

  Angela Merkel announced on Sunday she will run for a fourth term as German chancellor in next year’s election, despite growing rejection to her open-door migrant policy

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 17:20 UTC

  Coalition government: “we are open to talks” Merkel tells Social-democrats

  

  Just a few seats short of a majority, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she's ready to begin coalition talks with the center-left SPD, but with animosity on both sides, it's not quite clear who will be courting whom, according to German analysts.

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 19:43 UTC

  Germany’s anti-Euro party could force a ‘grand-coalition’ after Sunday’s election

  

  German voters will go to the polls this Sunday in a national election whose outcome could change the future of Germany and the Euro zone. According to the latest polls, Merkel's conservative lead has narrowed ahead of the vote on Sunday. Merkel and her conservative CDU/CSU coalition would receive 38% of the vote, an INSA poll showed on Thursday.

• Thursday, September 19th 2013 - 21:09 UTC

  Merkel rejects coalition with anti-Euro party that could capture 9% of votes on Sunday

  

  A leading member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union rejected coalition talks after Sunday’s elections with the Alternative for Germany party because of its anti-euro stance.

• Monday, April 1st 2013 - 09:32 UTC

  Opposition admits it will be hard to beat Chancellor Merkel in September

  

  Germany's two main opposition parties traded warnings against joining forces with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives after September's election if they fail to win their own left-of-centre majority.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 03:49 UTC

  Merkel signals to the opposition she is ready to accept measures to boost growth

  

  Chancellor Angela Merkel praised higher German wage deals and signalled flexibility on a financial transaction tax, in a sign she is open to new measures to boost growth in Europe.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2011 - 01:23 UTC

  State elections behind Merkel’s decision to halt 7 of Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel is backtracking on nuclear power as the atomic emergency in Japan becomes an issue in state-election campaigns. Merkel’s decision to halt seven of Germany’s 17 reactors includes two in Baden-Wuerttemberg, where her party is battling to retain its 59-year-hold on the state in a March 27 vote.

• Monday, May 10th 2010 - 03:33 UTC

  Greek Crisis Costs Germany’s Coalition Control of Parliament Upper House

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party and its coalition allies have been defeated in regional elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, projections suggest. If confirmed, this would see Ms. Merkel's national coalition lose its slim majority in the upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat.