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

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

The former chancellor's comments come after the CDU put forward a proposal which was supported by the far-right AfD.

Conservatives have cooperated with the far-right AfD for the first time, amid growing support from the tech billionaire.

Germany’s parliament has narrowly approved a call by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger to turn back many more migrants ...

R ARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar in Germany’s parliament, a tiny majority of ...

Opening the door to leaning on support from the far-right is a gamble for Merz, who believes that his increasingly radical ...

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democrats has reaffirmed his principled rejection of cooperation ...

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

Amnesty International, Seebrücke and other organisations called for the rally under the slogan "Firewall instead of arson".

The former chancellor’s intervention exposes a deepening rift within Germany’s conservatives over how to handle the AfD’s ...

German election frontrunner Friedrich Merz succeeded on Wednesday in getting a motion passed in parliament that calls for a ...