Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has presented a five-point plan to end irregular migration. However, both EU and German law would make it difficult for him to set his plan in motion.

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

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

Did Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, fall into a trap? Or is he forcing other mainstream parties to confront what ...

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 ...

The front-runner to be Germany's next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has faced criticism for accepting support from the ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger in Germany’s upcoming election plans to put proposals for a tougher migration policy to parliament on Wednesday, a maneuver aimed at piling pressure on the gov ...

An anti-migration motion brought by the main opposition conservatives – the CDU – was passed with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ...

BERLIN — Germany's parliament descended into heckles and recriminations on Wednesday after a "firewall" against working with ...

A non-binding motion advocating for tougher border and asylum regulations has passed, backed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

Friedrich Merz’s hard-line shift on migration is a calculated gambit by the German conservative leader to neutralize the far ...