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

Polls show conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s Union leading ahead of the Feb. 23 election with around 30% support, while ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the leader of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Friedrich Merz, for drawing on ...

The CDU's stricter migration policy, backed by the far-right AfD, has sparked protests in Berlin and heightened political ...

Former chancellor’s intervention exposes deep rift within country’s conservatives over how to handle the far right’s rising ...

Did Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, fall into a trap? Or is he forcing other mainstream parties to confront what ...

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

The German Catholic bishops’ conference on Wednesday distanced itself from a controversial statement against tougher ...

Friedrich Merz leaned the right-wing AfD party to push through measures to restrict immigration.

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday criticised her successor as leader of the conservative CDU party for ...

After German parliament passed a conservative motion aimed at toughening immigration rules with the help of the far-right AfD, we asked people living in Germany what they think about it.

A motion on immigration introduced in the Bundestag by the CDU obtained a majority on Wednesday with support from the ...