- Virtually all of Germany knows what CDU chairman Friedrich Merz did in early July.
- The first year of opposition has not been bad: Currently leading in national opinion polls, the CDU has also won two of the last three state elections: In Schleswig-Holstein and in North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Germany’s leading center-right party has some internal business to attend to: At this weekend’s party conference, the party will decide whether to introduce a female quota into its leadership positions — something already standard in other mainstream German parties.
German CDU struggles with Angela Merkel’s legacy 09.09.2022
