Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Quotes


Being a people's party cannot mean being a kind of all-purpose political shop that offers something for everyone.


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"Germany's Kramp-Karrenbauer seeks to hone CDU's conservative profile." Reuters, Thomson Reuters, 17 Oct. 2018.

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Essentially Trollope claimed that English political parties are by their very nature, conservative, in the sense that they tend to resist great change. This has tended to be true in America and other democracies, but there are a number of exceptions. Where political parties are totally unsuccessful, they have little to lose. Likewise, when a political party becomes overwhelmingly dominant, it tends to overreach and try and make ideological change. However when there is true contest among the parties, they tend to be conservative in the sense that even if they are liberal parties, they do not move in extreme ways.


Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
  • Born: August 9, 1962
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Politician

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, sometimes referred to by her initials of AKK, is a German politician serving as Minister of Defence since July 2019 and former Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).