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

Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

One might almost suspect – what a shocking thought – that conservatives are once again invoking a state of emergency as a ...

The Bundestag has narrowly rejected a bill to limit migration and close Germany’s borders. German conservatives caused ...

A majority of Germans believe the country should accept fewer refugees, according to the latest Deutschlandtrend poll.

Germany's Social Democrats are doubling down on criticism of conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, after a controversial bill on tighter migration policy tabled by his bloc was narrowly ...

An immigration bill from Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz and backed controversially by the ...

Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz defiantly vowed Friday to pass a bill to restrict immigration with ...

BERLIN — Germany’s parliament is expected to vote Friday on an opposition bill calling for tougher rules on migration that ...

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