The German Bundestag passed Friedrich Merz's five-point migration plan — which promised a dramatic tightening of the ...

No one is happier than Orban that centrist governments have begun to pick from his extremist playbook on migration. Ideas that were rejected years ago as non-starters, such as sending failed asylum ...

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

Germany's center-right bloc led by the Christian Democrats (CDU) is calling for stricter immigration law following a knife attack in the city of Aschaffenburg that left two people dead. After it came ...

Many mainstream leaders worry a pre-election debate over whether to ban Alternative for Germany will only boost the party ...

On Wednesday, with the support of the Alternative for Germany, the Christian Democrats passed a motion on migration policy ...

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democrats has reaffirmed his principled rejection of cooperation ...

Germany’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday for the first time approved a non-binding motion by the conservative opposition to close borders to asylum seekers, relying on the votes of the ...

A month before Germany’s federal election, chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused his main rival of embracing populism and ...

Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), has celebrated the Bundestag vote in favour of more ...

Germany’s parliament has narrowly approved a call by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger to turn back many more migrants ...