The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...
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 ...
Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the centre of his campaign ...
Germany's conservatives doubled down Friday on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict ...
In Germany, massive crowds of demonstrators took to the streets to protest against two mainstream conservative parties — Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, and Christian Social Union, or CSU — ...
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 ...
BERLIN — Germany's parliament is expected to vote Friday on an opposition bill calling for tougher rules on migration that ...
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared Christian Democratic Union (CDU) head Friedrich Merz, her successor as party ...
German party leaders were engaged in furious last-minute talks on Friday, delaying a high-stakes debate on an immigration ...