Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has presented a five-point plan to end irregular migration. However, both EU and German law would make it difficult for him to set his plan in motion.

The CDU party chief, who leads in the polls to become the next chancellor, said he would collect votes from all parties to ...

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

The conservative CDU/CSU party is hardening its stance on irregular immigration. Others in Europe have already paved the way.

R ARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar in Germany’s parliament, a tiny majority of ...

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

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has floated proposing legislation to tighten Germany's border controls, and claimed ...

Comparing Friedrich Merz to Viktor Orban is more of a compliment than an insult, State Secretary Zoltan Kovacs wrote.

Context: Brussels is “reviewing” its probes into tech groups including Apple, Meta and Google, launched under its landmark ...

Germany's government and opposition parties duelled on Monday over rival border control policies, with opposition leader ...

Social Democrat Scholz warns that Merz's proposal for permanent border controls would violate EU law, damage the economy, and ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's main challenger in Germany's upcoming election plans to put proposals for a tougher migration policy ...