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

A vote in Germanys national parliament (Bundestag) has led to fears that the firewall supposedly separating mainstream ...

The policy includes the principle of non-refoulement, which states that no asylum seeker can be forced to return to a country ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Horst Kohler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

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

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

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

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

The German parliament narrowly rejected on Friday an opposition-sponsored bill calling for tougher rules on migration that ...

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