The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), which is in alliance with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), emerged as the strongest party in Bavaria in Germany's national elections, reversing ...

Eduard Lintner, a former conservative member of the German lower house of parliament, has lodged an appeal with the Federal ...

The center-right Christian Social Union (CSU) exists as a political party only in Germany's southern state of Bavaria. Its political agenda is more or less the same as that of the Christian ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc again slipped behind the far-right Alternative for Germany party in a voter poll, ...

The smear campaign that forced the withdrawal of Supreme Court nominee Brosius-Gersdorf has revealed the right-wing character ...

For decades, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria has exerted outsized influence on Germany's national political stage. With state elections approaching on Sunday, however, the CSU finds itself ...

In 2008, the CSU, the sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Party (CDU) that has governed Bavaria for 56 consecutive years, recorded the worst result in its history.

The factions of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the bloc of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) hold a total of 328 seats in the Bundestag.

The bloc — made up of the Christian Democratic Union of Armin Laschet, who is running to become Germany's next leader, and the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union — released its program at a ...

With a final result of 60.7 percent of the votes, Bavaria’s Christian Social Union won its first-ever two-thirds majority in a state parliament. The result marked the CSU’s strongest showing ...

Zudem wirken sich die Faktoren, welche ihre Vorherrschaft in Bayern stützen, für die Union als Ganzes durchaus zweischneidig aus. The Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) is exceptional within the ...