Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national ...

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...

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

One might almost suspect – what a shocking thought – that conservatives are once again invoking a state of emergency as a ...

Despite the defeat on Friday in the German parliament of his proposed immigration law, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ...

The countdown is on to what is perhaps Europe's most important election of this year. On February 23, Germans go to the polls ...

The Bundestag has narrowly rejected a bill to limit migration and close Germany’s borders. German conservatives caused ...

A majority of Germans believe the country should accept fewer refugees, according to the latest Deutschlandtrend poll.

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 ...

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