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

A dozen lawmakers from Germany's centre-right CDU/CSU bloc did not cast a vote on the controversial bill to tighten migration ...

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 ...

The German parliament has narrowly rejected a law to tighten up asylum measures. The controversy over the law, and how it could have been passed with support from the far right AfD, have rocked German ...

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 German Bundestag are debating the "influx limitation law" and will then vote on it. The law, proposed by the conservative ...

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

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