Christian Democratic Union

The woman campaigning to succeed Angela Merkel as head of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), said she may consider quotas to get more women in parliament, as she positioned herself for a party election in December.

German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel (C), the Secretary General of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (L) and German Agriculture minister and Deputy Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Julia Kloeckner look on prior to a party leadership meeting at the CDU headquarters in Berlin, on July 2, 2018.

Peter Tauber, secretary-general of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party, will step down from his post for health reasons, party sources have said.

Parliamentary elections in Germany have resulted in the fourth consecutive victory of Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has apparently lost considerable support and received the second worst result in elections since 1949. In spite of the loss, however, Merkel still maintains the leading role of her party in the German political system.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her reelection as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has once again been elected to head the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

She received a new two-year mandate from 89 percent of delegates who voted in her favor, and "an 11-minute applause," according to reports.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet with German Minister of Food and Agriculture Christian Schmidt in Belgrade on Monday.

BRUSSELS - David McAllister of the European People's Party (EPP) is set to become the new European Parliament (EP) rapporteur for Serbia, Tanjug has learned at the MEP's office.

McAllister's appointment has been made at a closed-door EPP meeting, but it is yet to be officially confirmed by the EP's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

More than 90 per cent of Serbian journalists who took part in the survey published by Germany's Konrad Adenauer Stiftung on Monday said that censorship and self-censorship in Serbian media do exist.

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Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet on Thursday with Bundestag members Andreas Schockenhoff and Hans-Joachim Falenski, deputy chairman and foreign policy advisor of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, respectively