Christian Democrats Articles

SPD candidate Martin Schulz made two disastrous errors when launching his candidacy, finds Simon Vaut Martin Schulz achieved something the German Social Democrats have not seen in a long time: a unified party. The delegates voted unanimously at the SPD party...

Despite the need for reform in Germany, the SPD will have difficulty dislodging Angela Merkel this year, says Michael Miebach Six out of 10 Germans say they are dissatisfied with Angela Merkel’s conservative-liberal coalition. They have good reason: the government is...

A ruling coalition of two parties that can barely stand one another; a liberal party fearing annihilation at the next election; constant speculation that it could collapse at any moment … perhaps Germany is not so different from the UK after all. Provided Angela...

It’s hard to imagine now, but when the Queen last stood before parliament, it seemed all too easy to imagine that the Coalition would cast Labour into perpetual opposition; that David Cameron and Nick Clegg had succeeded where Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown had failed,...