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 ...

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

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

Leading politicians in Germany are calling for mass returns, echoing President Donald Trump’s plan to expel undocumented ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared Christian Democratic Union (CDU) head Friedrich Merz, her successor as party ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz may need support in the Bundestag from the AfD, a move that has attracted wide condemnation.

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

It is unclear whether the high-profile Influx Limitation Act will pass today in the Bundestag, or indeed even be debated. At late notice, liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) leader in the Bundestag ...