Former chancellor’s intervention exposes deep rift within country’s conservatives over how to handle the far right’s rising ...

The CDU party chief, who leads in the polls to become the next chancellor, said he would collect votes from all parties to ...

The conservative CDU/CSU party is hardening its stance on irregular immigration. Others in Europe have already paved the way.

Germany’s likely next chancellor wants tougher migration measures even with AfD support, triggering a fierce pre-election ...

R ARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar in Germany’s parliament, a tiny majority of ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has floated proposing legislation to tighten Germany's border controls, and claimed ...

Context: Brussels is “reviewing” its probes into tech groups including Apple, Meta and Google, launched under its landmark ...

Comparing Friedrich Merz to Viktor Orban is more of a compliment than an insult, State Secretary Zoltan Kovacs wrote.

Social Democrat Scholz warns that Merz's proposal for permanent border controls would violate EU law, damage the economy, and ...

L OBITH, NEAR where the river Rhine enters the Netherlands, has been a border town ever since northern Europe has had borders. Buried nearby lie the remains of a Roman camp that in the first century ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has floated proposing legislation ... which does away with checks at internal EU borders. Although there are mechanisms for EU member states to temporarily ...

Germany's opposition leader Friedrich Merz is under fire for vowing ... flow of migration at Germany's border. For his part, Merz called EU-wide rules "recognisably dysfunctional" and insisted ...