CDU party conference resumes, with CSU leader Markus S\u00f6der due to attend Pro-EU demonstrations planned in several German and European cities The Berlin Film Festival wraps after an edition overshadowed by political controversy<\/p>\n
Read below for updates of the main headlines from Germany on Saturday, February 21:<\/p>\n
CDU resumes federal party conference<\/p>\n
The conservative Christian Democratic Union resumes on Saturday its federal party conference, after a first successful day which saw the reelection of Chancellor Friedrich Merz as party leader.<\/p>\n
The conference is taking place in the southwestern city of Stuttgart, where state elections are scheduled on March 8.<\/p>\n
The conference is due to discuss on Saturday several motions, following numerous political proposals discussed in preparation.<\/p>\n
Markus S\u00f6der, the leader of CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), is among those due to attend on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Welcome to our coverage<\/p>\n
Good morning from Bonn, where we will be bringing you the latest on Germany on this cloudy weekend.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the conservative CDU party is set to resume its federal party conference in Stuttgart, after Chancellor Friedrich Merz was reelected as party leader on Friday.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, several German cities are due to see pro-EU demonstrations.<\/p>\n
And in the evening, the 76th Berlinale festival will wrap after comments by its jury president unleashed a storm of criticism.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned as we keep you posted on all things Germany!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CDU party conference resumes, with CSU leader Markus S\u00f6der due to attend Pro-EU demonstrations planned in several German…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[8386,29136,46928,2000,299,1945,1824,115366,227262,227263],"class_list":["post-779163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-cdu","tag-christian-social-union","tag-conference","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-markus-soder","tag-party-conference","tag-party-leader"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116108156285600706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}