At the centre of the immigration debate is the notion of “welfare magnetism”: the idea that migrants are drawn to Germany by ...

In countries across Europe, nativist far-right political parties have dramatically expanded their vote share in recent years, ...

MPs vote against a law proposed by the main conservative opposition and supported by Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Limiting Germany's refugee intake is a major issue in the campaign for the February 23 federal election, with the ...

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

Germany's net population rose by over 3.5 million between 2014 and 2024, driven entirely by migration. During this period, the number of German citizens fell by two million to 71.6 million. By ...

As Germany enters the final few weeks of its election campaign, the man poised to be the next chancellor has doubled down on ...

The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...

Asylum applications in Germany fell by 34% last year, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, in news welcomed by the outgoing ...

Friedrich Merz hopes to lure away AfD supporters, but will he alienate voters in the ideological middle?