Christian Democratic Union

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My work on the Christian Democratic Union!

The first class period where we were assigned to the groups we swapped emails, then after class part of the group assigned who would get what jobs. I was given the duty of finding out information on the party platform. The CDU is the largest party in Germany, being the catch for those aligned slightly right of center. They seem comparable to our American Republican Party.

Their relationship with the CSU is an interesting one, I find it very similar to the relationship the Democratic party has with the Democratic Farmer Labor party of Minnesota. Where the CSU operates nearly exclusively in Bavaria and the CSU binds to the CDU for national politics. Again, very much like the DFL and Democratic Party here in Minnesota.

Anyway, on to the party platform!

Officially the CDU is Christian, There isn’t a separation between church and the organization, The party emphasizes “Christian understanding of humans and their responsibility toward God.” People that belong to the party however do not need to belong to a specific religion and often don’t belong to any specific religion. As conservatives they believe in harsher punishments for criminals, as well as a need to be fiscally conservative. (Not spending so much money)

They are openly against the nation of Turkey joining the European Union. They claim that Turkey violates multiple basic human rights and also does not believe they should be admitted on the grounds that Turkey has yet to recognize the Republic of Cyprus as an independent nation. Every nation admitted into the European Union must recognize every other nation in the European Union. They instead favor what they call a “Privileged Partnership”

In regards to how I felt the group project worked. I was rather disappointed by how everything panned out. We did communicate via email. But we were unable to meet due to scheduling conflicts and no notice before meetings. The two times the group did meet it was announced same day. It’s actually my understanding that only three of the group members met face to face. We did all email our parts in but being as the first time we saw the power point was when we were giving the presentation I was incredibly annoyed by the feeling that I was completely winging the presentation. All in all, I think the group was just too big to keep things from being done efficient.



Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_%28Germany%29 accessed 9/15/12
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4434812.stm     accessed 9-15-12
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/115109/Christian-Democratic-Union-CDU accessed 9-15-12
http://www.cdu.de/en/3440.htm   9-15-12