The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own ...

Intensive high-level talks were under way in the German capital on Friday, hours ahead of a highly controversial planned vote ...

German political leaders held intensive closed-door talks in Berlin on Friday, hours ahead of a highly controversial planned ...

Lawmakers in Germany's parliament Friday opened a debate on a package of harsh immigration measures brought by the ...

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

A non-binding motion to restrict immigration has sparked outrage after citizens said the conservative CDU/CSU broke a promise not to work with the far-right AfD. Protesters in Berlin gathered outside ...

CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz wird trotz der zunehmenden Kritik an seinem Vorstoß in dieser Woche, einen Antrag mit Unterstützung ...

But that consensus, often described as a "firewall" by German politicians, seemed to have been undermined on Wednesday when a ...

The managing director of the parliamentary group of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Bernd Baumann and ...

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

German party leaders were engaged in furious last-minute talks on Friday, delaying a high-stakes debate on an immigration ...

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