Germany's conservatives doubled down on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict immigration on Friday, but failed to pass a contentious bill after a day of jeers and ...

German lawmakers on Friday narrowly rejected a highly controversial bill to tighten migration controls, averting another ...

You have to make a decision. Do you want to have the party of [Chancellor] Olaf Scholz and all those eunuchs? Or are you on our side, with Elon Musk and Donald Trump? Which side has more sex appeal?” ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the ...

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz suffered a shock setback in his bid to become chancellor after his effort to push through tough migration legislation with backing from the far-right failed ...

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 ...

The German parliament has narrowly rejected a law to tighten up asylum measures. The controversy over the law, and how it ...