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

Responding to the killing of a child, the poll-leading Christian Democrats are pushing to overhaul migration laws — possibly ...

The first major survey of voters after frontrunner Friedrich Merz’s controversial alignment with the far right suggests the gambit failed.

Less than three weeks before federal elections, the Forsa poll for RTL/ntv also showed support for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ...

Germany's political landscape is fraught as mainstream parties seek to avoid passing a controversial immigration law with far ...

If the law had passed, it would have been the first in the country's modern history to do so thanks to the support of the far ...

Germany's parliament may pass an immigration law supported by far-right votes, a first since WWII. Conservative leader ...

Thousands of people protested in Berlin on Sunday against plans to limit immigration proposed by opposition conservatives and ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before ...

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

In Germany, thousands protest far-right immigration bill  On Sunday, around 160,000 protesters took to the streets of Berlin after center-right leader Friedrich Merz proposed harsh immigration policy ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country's center-right leader ...