Battle for Merkel's chancellor seat heats up in Germany
WORLD / EUROPE Deal elusive for conservatives By AFP Published: Apr 19, 2021 06:48 PM German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the European Union special summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct. 1, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua) Two conservative leaders locked in battle for Angela Merkel's crown failed to reach a deal by their self-imposed deadline, pushing the chancellor's CDU-CSU alliance deeper into crisis months before elections. Armin Laschet, chief of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, and Markus Soeder, leader of Bavaria sister party CSU, have been in a scrum for a week over wh...