The leadership of Germany’s governing CDU/CSU group gathered for talks Sunday, with new CDU head Armin Laschet urging it to decide “very quickly” on a chancellor candidate for September’s general ...

BERLIN — Armin Laschet, the newly crowned German conservative candidate to succeed Angela Merkel, has a lot of persuading to do. Laschet, leader of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), prevailed ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As Armin Laschet strode towards Stralsund town hall to deliver one of his last speeches of this year’s Bundestag ...

The race between German chancellor candidates is narrowing days before the country’s national election, a new poll showed on Friday. According to public broadcaster ZDF, conservative candidate Armin ...

Armin Laschet sees himself as a bridge builder. He wants to lead and unite. He’s managed to lead his party to choose him as their candidate for chancellor in the upcoming German federal elections. The ...