Friedrich Merz is chasing voters defecting to the buoyant AfD and says that his policies are “right even if the wrong people ...

Ever since Germany has had a competitive far-right party again, this iron law has transformed into a ‘firewall’.

The German Bundestag passed Friedrich Merz's so-called five-point migration plan — which promised a dramatic tightening of ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off. By Christopher F.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reignited fierce debate within the country’s political landscape, taking aim at her own center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party for what she ...

As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

Germany's main opposition leader vowed on Thursday to impose immediate border controls if he becomes chancellor, as expected, ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...

Germany’s center-left governing parties have cast doubt on whether conservative leader Friedrich Merz can still be trusted not to bring the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, into ...

Demonstrators descended on Berlin Sunday to protest the norm-shattering overtures by Germany's conservatives towards the far ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative front-runner in the race for Germany’s chancellorship, called for a radical overhaul of the ...