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The CDU is a member of the Centrist Democrat International, the International Democrat Union, and the European People's Party (EPP). It is the largest party in the EPP with 23 MEPs. Ursula von der Leyen, the current President of the European Commission, is also a member of the CDU.
- 26 June 1945; 78 years ago
- Centre-right
Die Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands ( CDU) ist eine zwischen 1945 und 1950 gegründete, christdemokratische, konservative und wirtschaftsliberale Partei in Deutschland. Sie wird im politischen Spektrum mitte-rechts verortet. [4] [5]
- Carsten Linnemann (kommissarisch)
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- Forms of Cooperation
- Leaders of The Group in The Bundestag
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Predecessors
Both the CDU and the CSU were established after World War II and share a perspective based on Christian democracy and conservatism and hold the dominant centre-right position in the German political spectrum. The CSU is usually considered the de facto successor of the Weimar Republic–era Bavarian People's Party (BVP), which itself broke away from the all-German Catholic Centre Party (DZP) after World War I, but the CSU included also parts of the agrarian and liberal Bavarian Peasants' League...
CSU ambitions to become a nationwide party
During the 1970s and then again after 2015, several CSU leaders have expressed the wish to make the CSU a truly independent party without formal ties to the CDU. Usually they combined this wish with an expansion to the rest of Germany. After 1969, CDU and CSU were in the opposition in the Bundestag. CDU leader Kohl wanted to win the liberal FDPagain for a coalition with the CDU/CSU, while the CSU leader Strauß had different plans. He aimed for a right wing majority without the FDP. Additional...
Tensions in 2016–2021
Under the chairmanship of Angela Merkel (2000–2018), the CDU left some right wing positions behind and shifted more to the political centre. Especially the 2015 refugee crisisdivided the German population and caused conflict between the more liberal CDU and the more anti migrant party CSU. Therefore, a federal CSU was discussed again among party members and journalists. For example conservative Welt columnist Ansgar Graw wrote in 2016 that CDU and CSU lost its stance as a law and order party....
The CDU and the CSU usually only differ slightly in their political stances. The CSU is usually considered more socially conservative (especially on family issues, e.g. the CSU favors providing infants' parents with compensation (Betreuungsgeld) if they intend not to use the public day nursery system to work while the CDU favors public funding of d...
CDU and CSU are two separate parties with separate organization. While the CDU is a federal party with members and local affiliations in 15 of the 16 German states, the CSU has members and affiliations only in Bavaria. (CSU online members live outside of Bavaria but have no vote within the party.) Also, the CDU is running only in regional and local...
- 1949; 74 years ago
- Centre-right
Friedrich Merz. The December 2021 Christian Democratic Union leadership election was held in December 2021. The leader of the party was elected indirectly by a party convention, for the first time the CDU held a vote by the membership to decide the candidate which the party's executive board proposed to the party convention.
- Friedrich Merz
- 158,328
- 62.1%
17. Dez. 2021 · 12/17/2021. Members of the Christian Democratic Union have chosen Friedrich Merz to chair their party — now in opposition for the first time in 16 years. A prominent conservative, he is...
The CDU Germany stands for a free and constitutional democracy, a social and ecological market economy, Germany's inclusion in the Western values and defense community, and the unification of the nation, as well as a unified Europe. The CDU has always been the party of modern concepts, marking the pathway for the future.
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( German: Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands [ ˈkʁɪstlɪç demoˈkʁaːtɪʃə ʔuˈni̯oːn ˈdɔʏtʃlants]; CDU German pronunciation: [ ˌtseːdeːˈʔuː] ⓘ) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is the major catch-all party of the centre-right in German politics.