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...shake off four years of having to reach unsatisfactory compromises and get down to business. Her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) could ditch those annoying center-left Social Democrats, with whom they had been governing in a "grand...

In this article: Erika Steinbach, Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle, Free Democratic Party, CDU, Christian Democrats, Poland, Bundestag, and Berlin

...of the Christian Social Union -- the Bavarian-based sister party of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) -- as well as a sizeable group within the CDU. Yet to the alarm of Germany's neighbors, she is championed by some seeking to...

In this article: Erika Steinbach, Angela Merkel, Poland, Germany, CDU, FDP, Richard Williamson, World War Two, and Luftwaffe

...to find a common line. A two-day retreat may help. The courtship was an extended one. For 11 long years, the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) eyed each other longingly, each yearning to join the other in a...

In this article: Angela Merkel, FDP, Erika Steinbach, CDU, Berlin, Guido Westerwelle, Horst Seehofer, Poland, and World War II

...he said. "We must have some success in Copenhagen." On Monday, Rottgen, a member of Merkel's Christian Democratic party (CDU), told SPIEGEL ONLINE that the "politically binding" aims that were being talked about must be...

In this article: Copenhagen, Angela Merkel, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Climate change, Barack Obama, United Nations, Kyoto Protocol, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, and Bonn

...what direction the party should take. After four years in a coalition government with Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), who remain in power with the business friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP), the Social...

In this article: Sigmar Gabriel, Social Democrats, CDU, Dresden, Free Democratic Party, Tax, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Angela Merkel, Social Democrats, and Andrea Nahles

...funds. His comments appeared to contradict those of Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, a member of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), who told the Wirtschaftswoche weekly that the government could not refuse to provide aid now that GM...

In this article: Opel, General Motors, Rainer Bruederle, GM Europe, Magna, Angela Merkel, Berlin, CDU, and FDP

...is fully prepared to rise to this challenge," the report said. German elections in September allowed Merkel and the center-right CDU to shed the grand coalition with the center left Social Democrats. The results cleared the way for...

In this article: Angela Merkel, Germany, CDU, Social Democrats, Tax, Unemployment, Wolfgang Wiegard, Peter Bofinger, and Christian Democratic Union

...childhood I had had a critical view of the system". In 1990, after German unification, Mrs Merkel joined the centre-Right CDU party and won a parliamentary seat in the east. A protege of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, she rocketed through...

In this article: Angela Merkel, Helmut Kohl, Parmesan cheese, Banana, Nazism, Communism, CDU, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H W Bush

...Wennemer broke ranks and voted against a deal with Magna heavily backed by Chancellor Angela Merkel just days before her conservative CDU party was running re-election. Wennemer, a respected manager and former chief executive of German...

In this article: General Motors, Opel, Magna, Berlin, Germany, Wirtschaftswoche, CDU, and BMW X3

Adds quotes, background) Chancellor Angela Merkel wants Wolfgang Schaeuble, a veteran of her Christian Democrats (CDU) who has served as interior minister for the past four years, to become Germany's new finance minister, party sources...

In this article: Wolfgang Schaeuble, Angela Merkel, CDU, FDP, Germany, and Helmut Kohl