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by Tyler Durden Tuesday, Apr 20, 2021 - 08:37 AM Following a series of disappointments that has seen a string of would-be successors to Chancellor Angela Merkel rise and fall, Germany's Christian Democratic Union, the dominant party in the country's ruling coalition, has finally chosen a successor to the long-ruling Merkel. On Monday, Conservative Armin Laschet put an end to a messy standoff over the future of Germany's most powerful political party when he clinched the nomination to run for the chancellorship, signaling that, after 16 years of Merkel's centrism, Germany might be heading in a...

Leader of Merkel’s CDU party to head election challenge after Bavarian rival ends bid

Green co-president is a candidate for Germany's elections Green co-president is a candidate for Germany's elections Berlin, Apr 19 (Prensa Latina) Annalena Baerbock, co-president of the German Green Party, on Monday became the candidate for federal chancellor in the September general elections. Annalena Baerbock will be the first Green candidate for the Chancellery, she will guide us in this campaign with a view to the September 26 elections, the other party president, Robert Habeck, who also aspired to succeed Angela Merkel, said in a press briefing. This will be the first time that the orga...

Return of German politics By Joschka Fischer BERLIN ― Angela Merkel's 16-year reign as German chancellor is coming to an end. Whatever one's feelings about her, she has put her stamp on an entire era. But political epochs rarely end quietly, and "Mutti's" long goodbye is no exception. German electoral politics have finally started to heat up. The first two state elections of what will be a super election year pointed to the possibility that the federal election on Sept. 26 could produce a new government coalition without Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, t...

Curfews in Berlin, Hamburg and Brandenburg to prevent crowds Merkel seeks coherent policy with other state leaders in effort to reduce Covid third wave Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 19:19 People sit in the sun in Berlin: From Friday, the city has banned all gatherings of more than two people between 9pm and 5am. Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty   With a summery Easter weekend looming, Berlin, Hamburg and Brandenburg have imposed night-time restrictions in response to recent gatherings of crowds in defiance of Covid-19 rules. Hamburg and Brandenburg have already imposed a curfew between 9pm and 10pm respe...