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CDU

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CDU
abbreviation for
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Christlich-Demokratische Union: a German (until 1990 West German) political party
[German: Christian Democratic Union]


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Sources close to the negotiations told AFP that Wolfgang Schaueble of the CDU -- currently interior minister -- is in line to become finance minister, with the CSU's Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg poised to take the defence portfolio.
Volker Kauder, a senior CDU official, insisted that health care reforms passed under the previous "grand coalition" government would not be touched, whereas the FDP wants them rolled back.
If the popularity of the CDU is weakened, Merkel may be pushed into forming a coalition with the SPD, jeopardising her plans to push through tax cuts and legislation to extend the life of the country's nuclear power plants.
 
 
 
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