Germany’s political outliers embarrassing their parties
- 6th July 2021,
All major German political parties have a politician who knows how to play to the gallery with carefully honed outrageous statements — to the..
Conservative at Heart
- 3rd January 2019,
New CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has often been called an “Angela Merkel 2.0”. In fact, AKK..
Friedrich Merz: Germany’s Next Chancellor?
- 30th November 2018,
At a key party conference in early December, Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party is poised to..
Angela Merkel’s rival Friedrich Merz and the vast, shadowy power of BlackRock
- 29th November 2018,
The sheer scale of BlackRock’s finances makes its influence on the world unlike that of any..
MPs from Angela Merkel’s CDU have been accused of taking bribes from the German gunmaker Heckler..
CDU forced to publish lobbyist list after legal battle
- 1st December 2015,
Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has been forced to publish a list of lobbyists it gave..
Bundestag MPs allowed to vote despite vested interests
- 24th November 2015,
An MP who works for a law firm representing Volkswagen in the emissions scandal voted to..
A guide to Germany’s right
- 14th December 2014,
There has been much talk of a rightward shift in European politics this year, though Germany’s..
German Eurosceptics win state seats in Saxony
- 1st September 2014,
Alternative für Deutschland beats two mainstream rivals, as leader declares party has ‘arrived on political landscape.’
Podcast News, June 4-6, 2014: Quirky CDU European election ads, bad boy Gerhard Schröder and not..