Analysis - German households pay for lower industrial power pr...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Accusations of nepotism within Germany's Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, have hit support for the party's leader some four months before elections, a poll showed ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel will unveil her Christian Democratic Union's campaign platform on June 24, the last political leader to outline a program in an election-year tradition reserved for the ruling party. The timing of the presentation, ...

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, premier of the western state of Saarland and a senior figure in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said in a weekend radio interview that Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schroeder had gone too far by reducing the top rate ...

German Chancellor and leader of Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Angela Merkel smiles to sister party Christian Social Union (CSU) leader Horst Seehofer during the second day of the CDU's annual party meeting in Hanover, December

Germany's Greens party backed a campaign platform of tax increases that members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic bloc said rules out a coalition after national elections in September. Delegates at a Greens party convention in ...

German Chancellor and leader of Christian Democratic Union … World+Economy MUNICH (Reuters) - A senior figure in Chancellor Angela Merkel's sister party quit on Thursday over criticism he paid his wife a hefty salary for working for him, a ...

Marking a dramatic U-turn, the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party is reportedly now considering the idea of toughening conditions for voluntary tax declarations. The tax amnesty provision was first restricted by the black-yellow coalition ...

YEREVAN, APRIL 13, ARMENPRESS: Mikhail Gorbachev has been awarded a gold medal of the Union of Pensioners of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU). This award is given for achievements in reconciliation and mutual understanding between ...

MUNICH Its a family affair, but one that is very public and very political. Bavarias dominant political force, the Christian Social Union, is embroiled in a nepotism scandal, accused of confusing family values with rewarding family members. Dozens ...