Friedrich Merz cooperated with the Alternative for Deutschland party in order to pass new limits on immigration.

These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought ...

German parliament rejects controversial migration bill backed by far-right - The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the ...

Tens of thousands of Germans have protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the opposition and the man most likely to become the Germany’s next chancellor, came one step ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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