The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own ...

Intensive high-level talks were under way in the German capital on Friday, hours ahead of a highly controversial planned vote ...

In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...

German political leaders held intensive closed-door talks in Berlin on Friday, hours ahead of a highly controversial planned ...

A non-binding motion to restrict immigration has sparked outrage after citizens said the conservative CDU/CSU broke a promise not to work with the far-right AfD. Protesters in Berlin gathered outside ...

CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz wird trotz der zunehmenden Kritik an seinem Vorstoß in dieser Woche, einen Antrag mit Unterstützung ...

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

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

German party leaders were engaged in furious last-minute talks on Friday, delaying a high-stakes debate on an immigration bill which the conservative opposition has threatened to pass with the support ...

The AfD speaks of a "historic moment" after a CDU/CSU bill was passed in the Bundestag for the first time with the help of ...

The managing director of the parliamentary group of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Bernd Baumann and ...

German lawmakers on Friday narrowly rejected a highly controversial bill to tighten migration controls, averting another ...