The race to succeed Angela Merkel
Germany’s CDU hopefuls duke it out in Düsseldorf
IN THE 1950s West Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) reassured wary voters that it would deliver “no experiments”. So it is striking to see the party, languishing in opinion polls and tiring after 13 years in government, suddenly revitalised by an almost unprecedented innovation: a leadership election.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Change, but not too much”
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