Laschet

Armin Laschet just became candidate for Chancellor for Germany's conservative Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian-Social Union (CSU). He might be Angela Merkel's successor in a few months from now. The elections take place on Sunday, September 26th, 2021.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU and its Bavarian sister party CSU may — or may not — have a candidate for Chancellor. Armin Laschet, the…

In Berlin, Markus Söder told the participants of a meeting of the 'Union' parties' Bundestag fractions, he would be willing to become candidate for Chancellor,…

Germany needs a new Chancellor. Angela Merkel is generally very popular, but she is preparing to go in September. So, who will it be?

Germany's last major party, the conservative CDU, is scheduled to vote for a new chairman this week. The winner might become Chancellor in September.

In Germany, it is too early to tell whether the semi-lockdown the government put in place on Monday works, according to the First Minister of North…

In Germany, the federal government intends to convince the First Ministers from the federal states to agree to a semi-lockdown of the kind the country went through in spring. But schools and kindergartens are supposed to remain open.

Because of the regional Coronavirus outbreak in Gütersloh county, some federal states in Germany refused to accept residents from there at hotels. Now there is…

The authorities in Gütersloh county are fighting the most serious local Coronavirus outbreak in Germany since the crisis began. At the Tönnies meat factory,…

The First Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia blamed "Romanians and Bulgarians" for a serious Corona outbreak at the Tönnies meat factory near Gütersloh today. Hundreds of workers are infected and more than 7,000 people are in quarantine now.