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 ...

Bill calling for tougher rules on migration widely criticised for undermining ‘firewall’ against working with far right.

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

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

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz suffered a shock setback in his bid to become chancellor after his effort to push ...

The German Bundestag will hold a debate on the "influx limitation law" then vote on it. The law, proposed by the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, could pass in the lower house with the aid of the far-right ...

Germany's mainstream parties were locked in talks on Friday in an attempt to avert the possibility of a law passing thanks to ...

With cheers of surprise and shocked faces, Bundestag MPs narrowly rejected a migration bill on Friday pushed by the ...

Germany's parliament faced the possibility of passing a law due to far-right support for the first time in post-war history, ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz pressed ahead with tough migration legislation backed by the far right, despite protests that have splintered the country just three weeks before a national ...

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