CDU faction leader Friedrich Merz, the CDU/CSU’s candidate for chancellor in the February federal elections, had previously ...

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 ...

A who's who of German talent signed an open letter calling for political leaders to "uphold democratic values" after a ...

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 ...

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

Protesters in Germany on Thursday rallied against the conservative CDU party to decry its cooperation with the far-right AfD ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Friedrich Merz leaned the right-wing AfD party to push through measures to restrict immigration.