The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own ...

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

Intensive high-level talks were under way in the German capital on Friday, hours ahead of a highly controversial planned vote ...

German political leaders held intensive closed-door talks in Berlin on Friday, hours ahead of a highly controversial planned ...

A non-binding motion to restrict immigration has sparked outrage after citizens said the conservative CDU/CSU broke a promise not to work with the far-right AfD. Protesters in Berlin gathered outside ...

CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz wird trotz der zunehmenden Kritik an seinem Vorstoß in dieser Woche, einen Antrag mit Unterstützung ...

The Bundestag rejected the CDU/CSU bill on limiting immigration. The media noted that this was a painful defeat for Friedrich ...

The breaking of a taboo among mainstream German parties on cooperation with the far right looks set to complicate efforts to ...

For the first time in the 75-year post-war history of the German parliament, one of the major parliamentary groups has made ...

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

The breaking of a taboo among mainstream German parties on cooperation with the far right looks set to complicate efforts to ...

The AfD speaks of a "historic moment" after a CDU/CSU bill was passed in the Bundestag for the first time with the help of ...