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

The date January 29, 2025 will be remembered for a long time in Germany. It was the day the conservative group comprising the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union, the largest ...

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 ...

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

The managing director of the parliamentary group of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Bernd Baumann and ...

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

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

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 ...

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

German party leaders were engaged in furious last-minute talks on Friday, delaying a high-stakes debate on an immigration ...