Merz had presented parliament with proposals for strict new immigration rules, which were supported by the partly far-right ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the center of his campaign for the Feb. 23 election since a deadly knife attack last week by a ...

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

Frontrunner in bid to become chancellor criticised for relying on AfD to pass parliamentary motion on migration laws ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

None of the men I saw at the Gaîté Lyrique looked like he was under 18 years of age. Their passports are probably at the ...

Christian Democratic Union will neither enter coalition talks with the AfD nor form a minority government, ex-chairman Armin ...

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

Germany’s election on February 23rd, which will probably mark an end to Mr Scholz’s tenure, is a good moment to assess the ...

The likely next chancellor wants to adopt the right-wing AfD migration policies while still sidelining the party itself Read ...

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