Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the centre of his campaign for the February election.

GERMANY’S parliament rejected legislation yesterday calling for stricter immigration rules. MPs cast 338 votes in favour, but there were 350 against and five abstentions. This followed a non-binding ...

The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has slammed her conservative rival Friedrich Merz after a ...

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.

The German parliament rejected an opposition draft law on tightening immigration policy on Friday, two days after the ...

In Germany, massive crowds of demonstrators took to the streets to protest against two mainstream conservative parties — Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, and Christian Social Union, or CSU — ...

Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz defiantly vowed Friday to pass a bill to restrict immigration with ...

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

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 bottom of the Mediterranean. The only woman I saw was the white activist making ...

Germany's parliament could pass a law thanks to far-right support for the first time in the country's post-war history on ...

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

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on ...