It began with a moment of silence for the victims of the attack in Aschaffenburg, where a week ago a mentally ill refugee ...

Germany will introduce permanent border controls and will send back to other countries all foreigners who illegally cross the ...

The Alternative for Germany party helped conservatives push an immigration restriction proposal over the threshold this week, breaking the long-standing “firewall” separating the party from mainstream ...

Angela Merkel criticizes CDU leader Friedrich Merz for using far-right support to pass a motion, breaking a German political taboo. Merkel urges democratic parties to unite against extremism, as the ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the leader of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Friedrich Merz, for drawing on ...

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

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

Germany’s parliament has narrowly approved a call by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger to turn back many more migrants at the country’s borders, with the help of a far-right party ...

Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become chancellor in February's election, is making waves by agreeing to work with the far ...

The right to asylum is a fixed component of German laws and values, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday in an ...

Weeks before Germany's elections, a heated immigration debate inflamed by a deadly knife attack sparked a political ...

Friedrich Merz, Germany's opposition leader, proposes stringent migration policies, creating pressure on Chancellor Olaf ...