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

Intensive high-level talks were under way in the German capital on Friday, hours ahead of a highly controversial planned vote ...

In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...

German political leaders held intensive closed-door talks in Berlin on Friday, hours ahead of a highly controversial planned ...

After the conservative CDU-CSU bloc joined with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party to pass a non-binding motion ...

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 ...

An immigration bill from Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz and backed controversially by the ...

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 countdown is on to what is perhaps Europe's most important election of this year. On February 23, Germans go to the polls ...

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