As Germany enters the final few weeks of its election campaign, the man poised to be the next chancellor has doubled down on ...

Favorite to be next German chancellor loses bid to use AfD support to push through immigration law, after days of turmoil ...

Merz's personal popularity is up four points in fresh polling released on Thursday – and his party gained too.

Germany's conservatives doubled down Friday on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict ...

It was perhaps the most dramatic week for German politics in decades as the Bundestag on Friday held three nail-biting votes to tighten migration rules after yet another terrorist attack committed by ...

The country's favourite to become next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, proposed a motion asking ... and a 2-year-old boy in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg last week. The incident followed knife ...

Horrified by the Aschaffenburg attack on Jan 22, in which a rejected Afghan asylum seeker killed two people – including a toddler, opposition leader Friedrich Merz declared that enough was enough.

Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative ... In the wake of the deadly knife attack in Aschaffenburg, Merz vowed to crack down on immigration if he becomes chancellor in a bid to win back ...

The Christian Democrats have vividly demonstrated that they will not be dissuaded from embracing the Alternative for Germany ...

The Bundestag rejected the CDU/CSU bill on limiting immigration. The media noted that this was a painful defeat for Friedrich ...