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    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
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      Europe’s troubled centre-right flirts with hardline partners Premium content

      Mainstream conservatives are struggling with a shrinking electoral base and the rise of nationalists and populists

    • Sunday, 12 February, 2023
      German politics
      Olaf Scholz’s party loses Berlin election to CDU

      Result of the rerun of the 2021 poll in the German capital is a blow to the chancellor’s Social Democrats

    • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
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      Merkel censured by Germany’s highest court for intervening in 2020 regional poll

      Ruling is an embarrassment for former chancellor six months after she retired from politics

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
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      Scholz suffers election setback in North Rhine-Westphalia

      Losses in Germany’s most populous state come amid criticism of chancellor’s response to Ukraine war

    • Saturday, 22 January, 2022
      German politics
      Friedrich Merz wins CDU leadership election

      Conservative promises victory in regional elections this year and says he will draft programme for party reeling from defeat

    • Friday, 17 December, 2021
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      Successor to Angela Merkel tasked with boosting party’s morale after worst-ever Bundestag election result

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      Longstanding chancellor accused of neglecting CDU and losing support of party’s rightwing

    • Thursday, 7 October, 2021
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      Laschet signals he will quit as leader of Germany’s CDU

      Departure would come after party’s worst election result and as rivals start coalition talks

    • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
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      German parties to start three-way talks on coalition led by Social Democrats

      Greens and liberals willing to explore deal with election winner Scholz that would shut out Merkel’s CDU

    • Sunday, 3 October, 2021
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      German parties kick off exploratory coalition talks

      Traditionally dominant SPD and CDU must woo Greens and liberals to form next government

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      Large numbers of under-25s deserted the once dominant SPD and CDU in Germany’s election

    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
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      After Merkel, the CDU surveys the wreckage

      As Laschet and Scholz vie for a coalition mandate, the Greens and the Liberals prepare to talk directly

    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
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      Germany’s post-Merkel era: the coalition options and what they mean

      Accord between Greens and liberal FDP will determine who governs the eurozone’s largest economy

    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
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      Traditionally dominant SPD and CDU/CSU must woo smaller parties to determine who becomes chancellor

    • Monday, 27 September, 2021
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      Scholz and Social Democrats win tight German election

      Country heads for long talks over three-way coalition as Laschet insists CDU can also form government

    • Sunday, 26 September, 2021
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      Laschet claws back ground in Germany’s coalition contest

      CDU/CSU crashes to historic election defeat but still takes shine off SPD performance

    • Friday, 24 September, 2021
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      Germany’s electoral oracle struggles to divine the post-Merkel future

      Pinneberg has for decades sided with the party that claimed power but this year’s picture is unclear

    • Friday, 24 September, 2021
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      Final rallies by chancellor hopefuls eclipsed by crowds at climate protests as race to succeed Merkel tightens

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      The German chancellor has her faults. But the right question in politics is always to ask ‘compared to what?’

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      Berlin needs to raise public investment and fund the transition to a greener future

    • Thursday, 23 September, 2021
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      Germany’s election: a new era of uncertain coalition politics

      As Angela Merkel exits, Germany’s model of two dominant big-tent parties is becoming more fragmented

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      Merkel woos voters one more time to prop up Laschet’s faltering campaign

      German chancellor tries to sprinkle stardust on preferred successor ahead of Sunday’s poll

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    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      German politics
      CDU on attack over Europe as Scholz increases German poll lead

      Merkel’s party accuses finance minister of policies that would expose taxpayers and savers

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