On Wednesday, Merz pushed through a non-binding motion in favour of an immigration crackdown with support from the AfD, ...

For the first time in the 75-year post-war history of the German parliament, one of the major parliamentary groups has made ...

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 ...

Friedrich Merz’s hard-line shift on migration is a calculated gambit by the German conservative leader to neutralize the far ...

Friedrich Merz’s hard-line shift on migration is a calculated gambit by the German conservative leader to neutralize the far ...

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

Beating the Incumbent in the German Elections 2025   Louis Perron At the end of February, Germans will be heading to the polls to hold early elections. In Germany, that’s a big deal, because <a class= ...

Friedrich Merz, German opposition leader and chairman of the CDU party, speaks at the Global Leaders Dialogue in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.

Germany's main opposition leader vowed on Thursday to impose immediate border controls if he becomes chancellor, as expected, ...

After years in which Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been accused of treading lightly on European and world stages, conservative election ...

If the German political class generally pays limited attention to Austrian politics, its southern neighbor’s convulsed start to the year has forced them to ask what it means for Germany. After ...