• Look up CDU in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. CDU may refer to: Catholic Distance University, a private online Roman Catholic university in Charles...
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  • CDU/CSU, unofficially the Union parties (German: Unionsparteien, pronounced [uˈni̯oːnspaʁˌtaɪən]) or the Union, is a centre-right Christian democratic...
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    Demokratische Union Deutschlands [ˈkʁɪstlɪç demoˈkʁaːtɪʃə ʔuˈni̯oːn ˈdɔʏtʃlants]; CDU German pronunciation: [ˌtseːdeːˈʔuː] ) is a Christian democratic and conservative...
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    counterpart, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), operates in the other fifteen states of Germany. It differs from the CDU by being somewhat more conservative...
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  • Juventude CDU is the youth wing of the Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU) in Portugal. Juventude CDU consists of the Portuguese Communist Youth (JCP) and...
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    policy expert in the CDU. He was elected chairman of the CDU/CSU group in the same year as Angela Merkel was elected chairwoman of the CDU, and at the time...
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    and emerged as the largest party for the first time since 2002. The ruling CDU/CSU, which had led a grand coalition with the SPD since 2013, recorded their...
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    (FDP), an alliance more favourable to the CDU than the grand coalition. In the 2013 federal election, the CDU won a landslide victory and formed a second...
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    power in the Bundestag. It has been a junior coalition partner to both the CDU/CSU (1949–1956, 1961–1966, 1982–1998 and 2009–2013) and Social Democratic...
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  • Merz as CDU/CSU chancellor candidate Boris Pistorius as SPD chancellor candidate Hendrik Wüst as CDU/CSU chancellor candidate Markus Söder as CDU/CSU chancellor...
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    Cebu Doctors' University, also referred to by its acronym CDU and colloquially Cebu Doc, is a private nonsectarian coeducational higher education institution...
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  • CDU donations scandal was a political scandal resulting from the illegal forms of party financing used by the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU)...
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    The CDU Baden-Württemberg (CDU BW or CDU BaWü) is the political party with the most members in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the second largest...
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    Democratic Union of Germany (German: Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands, CDU) was an East German political party founded in 1945. It was part of the National...
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    Germany from 1990 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest of any German chancellor...
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  • largest by members and parliament seats are the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic...
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    The CDU Hamburg is the regional state association of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in Hamburg, Germany. As of 2019, there are about...
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    coalition of the CDU/CSU and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), with CDU leader Angela Merkel becoming chancellor. However, the CDU/CSU ultimately...
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    The Exil-CDU (Christian Democratic Union in Exile) was from 1950 to 1990 a national federation of the CDU. It represented CDU members who had escaped or...
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    spanned more than five decades. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he was the longest-serving member of any democratic German parliament....
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    Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU), led by incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel, won the highest percentage...
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    was a West German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. He served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1953 to 1961,...
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  • The destruction of the CDU (German: Die Zerstörung der CDU) is the title of a video released on May 18, 2019, in the run-up to the 2019 European elections...
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    26 October 2021. He served as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 22 January 2021 to 31 January 2022. He was elected to the German Bundestag...
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    Democratic Union (CDU) from 2018 to 2021. In February 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that she would resign her position as CDU leader later in the...
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    SPD–FDP coalition fell apart when the FDP joined forces with the CDU/CSU to elect CDU Chairman Helmut Kohl as Chancellor in a constructive vote of no confidence...
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    Wirtschaftsunion Werteunion CDU Hochsauerlandkreis, CDU Mittelsachsen CDU Sömmerda CDU Marburg-Biedenkopf CDU Wildeshausen CDU Düsseldorf Individuals Reiner...
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    election must then take place within 70 days. On 21 February 2020, The Left, CDU, SPD, and Greens came to an agreement to schedule a new election for 25 April...
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  • The New CDU – United Christian Democrats (Nuovo CDU – Cristiani Democratici Uniti) is a Christian democratic political party in Italy led by Mario Tassone...
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    In West Germany, the SPD became one of two major parties alongside the CDU/CSU. In the Godesberg Program of 1959, the SPD dropped its commitment to...
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