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

The front-runner in Germany’s upcoming election says the far-right Alternative for Germany is his “most important opponent” ...

Support for Germany's conservative bloc fell by 2 percentage points to 28% within a week, a survey showed on Tuesday after ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...

Germany’s conservatives are desperate to avoid a three-party coalition, but the outcome depends on how many small parties ...

The way they’re pardoning people who have been sentenced to years in prison, that will have consequences for America,” Merz ...

The CDU's candidate for chancellor Friedrich Merz has travelled to Kyiv.

Last week, the CDU broke the mainstream parties' so-called firewall of noncooperation with the far-right Alternative for ...

Merz drew protests after he put a motion to parliament last week calling for Germany to turn back many more migrants at its ...

Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz explicitly distanced himself and his party from the far-right AfD, after sparking outrage over his cooperation with the AfD last week.

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off. By Christopher F.