Favorite to be next German chancellor loses bid to use AfD support to push through immigration law, after days of turmoil over weakening of Germany’s “firewall.” ...

The CDU party chief, who leads in the polls to become the next chancellor, said he would collect votes from all parties to ...

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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.

The conservative CDU/CSU party is hardening its stance on irregular immigration. Others in Europe have already paved the way.

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has floated proposing legislation to tighten Germany's border controls, and claimed ...

Social Democrat Scholz warns that Merz's proposal for permanent border controls would violate EU law, damage the economy, and ...

Context: Brussels is “reviewing” its probes into tech groups including Apple, Meta and Google, launched under its landmark ...

Germany's opposition leader Friedrich Merz is under fire for vowing ... flow of migration at Germany's border. For his part, Merz called EU-wide rules "recognisably dysfunctional" and insisted ...

Mr Merz argued the need “to negotiate with the American side from a position of strength”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

After years in which Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been accused of treading lightly on European and world stages, conservative election front-runner Friedrich Merz has vowed a bold return to ...

The EPP’s messaging is clear that the CDU will return in the driver’s seat, if Merz becomes Germany's chancellor.