The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...

Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national ...

German politicians are holding a debate and vote on the controversial 'Influx Limitation Law', which aims to tighten ...

The German parliament narrowly rejected on Friday an opposition-sponsored bill calling for tougher rules on migration that ...

Germany's conservatives doubled down on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict immigration on Friday, but failed to pass a contentious bill after a day of jeers and ...

Germany's lower house narrowly rejected a controversial immigration bill pushed by the opposition and supported by the far ...

Germany’s parliament rejected an opposition proposal to tighten immigration laws, preventing a bill from passing with far-right backing. The vote weakens opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who had ...

If the law had passed, it would have been the first in the country’s modern history to do so thanks to the support of the far-right.

The leader of Germany's conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to the Christian Democrats (CDU) ...