Europe / Germany · Politics

CDU leadership retreat after election losses in eastern Germany

Rank
Running: 37h
Updated: 4h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 13
Regions: 1
Countries: 5
Languages: 3

T-Online Germany · German 10 Oct, 13:03 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Suomi (1) · +1 language

Read at T-Online

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: T-Online, 10 Oct, 13:03 UTC.
Second country: Austria, with Kurier.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 10 Oct, 13:03 UTC.
Now: 13 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Europe 13 outlets · 5 countries · 100%

First movers

T-Online 10 Oct, 13:03 UTC
Kurier +0m
Tagesschau +2h 32m
Berliner Morgenpost +6h 31m
Deutschlandfunk +9h 17m

Latest arrivals

Iltalehti 11 Oct, 23:20 UTC
N1 11 Oct, 20:59 UTC
Der Spiegel 11 Oct, 18:24 UTC
taz 11 Oct, 17:45 UTC
n-tv 11 Oct, 13:18 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 13 outlets in 5 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 13 outlets, 3 public-service, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 5: Austria, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Serbia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: German, Finnish, Serbian.
Timeline: Earliest article T-Online, 10 Oct 2026, 13:03 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 13:40 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 23:20 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Europe, Germany. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 1.37, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Merged from 2 stories CDU leadership retreat after election losses in eastern Germany; Merz's CDU grapples with internal rift over party direction. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

11 Oct 2026 307 2.76 13 5 12 4 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 13:40 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 23:20 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 13 outlets

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Iltalehti Finland 11 Oct, 23:20 UTC
Saksan valtapuolueella kriisikokous, Merzin asema uhattuna
Deutschlandfunk Germany 11 Oct, 22:36 UTC
Berlin - CDU berät über Wege aus der Krise - Hoppermann: "Klausur ist keine Wunderwaffe"
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Tagesschau Germany 11 Oct, 21:11 UTC
CDU-Klausur: Wie verarbeitet die Parteiführung die Wahlniederlagen?
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N1 Serbia 11 Oct, 20:59 UTC
Krizni samit partije Fridriha Merca: Posle tri izborna poraza, CDU
Der Spiegel Germany 11 Oct, 18:24 UTC
Friedrich Merz und die CDU-Präsidiumsklausur: Was folgt aus dem Wahl-»Desaster« im Osten?
taz Germany 11 Oct, 17:45 UTC
CDU-Präsidiumsklausur: Wohin steuert die Union?
Berliner Morgenpost Germany 11 Oct, 14:11 UTC
Neue Umfrage könnte Merz‘ CDU Hoffnung machen – trotz AfD-Erfolgs
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- CDU-Klausur: Wie geht es weiter nach dem Wahl-Debakel? CDU berät Konsequenzen 10 Oct, 19:34 UTC
Die Zeit Germany 11 Oct, 13:28 UTC
CDU-Führungsklausur: CDU-Generalsekretärin dämpft Erwartungen an Präsidiumsklausur
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n-tv Germany 11 Oct, 13:18 UTC
Auftakt mit Gauck: CDU dämpft Hoffnungen: Klausur keine "Wunderwaffe"
Tageblatt Luxembourg 11 Oct, 09:34 UTC
Druck auf Kanzler: CDU fordert von Merz „überzeugenden Plan“
T-Online Germany 11 Oct, 09:28 UTC
Friedrich Merz: Neue INSA-Umfrage vor CDU-Krisensitzung
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- Richtungsstreit in Merz' Partei: Wie geht es weiter mit der CDU? 10 Oct, 13:03 UTC
ZDF heute Germany 11 Oct, 09:28 UTC
Nach Verlusten: CDU-Führung sucht Ausweg aus der Krise
Kurier Austria 10 Oct, 13:03 UTC
Merz muss in CDU-Präsidiumsklausur um gemeinsame Linie ringen