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 ...

Wild verbal battles in the Bundestag, loud demonstrations on the streets, talk of betrayal and of taboos being broken: it has been an extraordinary few days in German politics. On Friday, parliament ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

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

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the centre of his campaign ...

Germany's Bundestag rejected a draft law that aimed to tighten immigration policy, backed by the far-right AfD. Despite passing a non-binding motion earlier, conservative lawmakers abstained from ...

Leading politicians in Germany are calling for mass returns, echoing President Donald Trump’s plan to expel undocumented migrants from the United States.

In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...

German lawmakers are seeking a last-minute compromise over a controversial migration bill that would allow the proposal to ...

Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz defiantly vowed Friday to pass a bill to restrict immigration with ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz pressed ahead with tough migration legislation backed by the far right, despite protests that have splintered the country just three weeks before a national ...