Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees ...

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

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

LOS ANGELES, USA - Newsaktuell - 31 January 2025 - High levels of governance have masked a slow decline in Germany, with political, economic, and soc ...

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

A Rome court on Friday ordered a group of migrants detained in camps built in Albania to be transferred to Italy, sources ...

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

German opposition leader and Christian Union parties floor leader Friedrich Merz speaks after the debate and a voting about migration at the German parliament Bundestag.

For the first time in the 75-year post-war history of the German parliament, one of the major parliamentary groups has made ...

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

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has sparked widespread controversy after addressing an Alternative for Germany (AfD) campaign ...