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

As Germany ramps up spending on its military, a clash is brewing around what some politicians and defense executives say is ...

Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union ...

With cheers of surprise and shocked faces, Bundestag MPs narrowly rejected a migration bill on Friday pushed by the ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz suffered a shock setback in his bid to become chancellor after his effort to push through tough migration legislation with backing from the far-right failed ...

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

The bill had the support of both Germany's conservatives and the far-right Alternative for Germany, which are leading in the ...

Bill calling for tougher rules on migration widely criticised for undermining ‘firewall’ against working with far right.

A vote in Germany's national parliament (Bundestag) has led to fears that the firewall supposedly separating mainstream <a target=_blank href=http ...

Germany's Social Democrats are doubling down on criticism of conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, after a ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...