Germany's conservative opposition party is set to team up with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to tackle migration - prompting anger from former Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU leader ...

Germany's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday with a reduced headcount, fewer women and a record number of ...

Merz’s draft legislation, however, raised the ire of former Chancellor and CDU leader Angela Merkel, who intervened. Now retired from politics, Merkel is a scorched-earth, never-AfD hardliner ...

Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a career that has taken her around the world. Germans delivered a major ...

After then-Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany’s doors to more than 1 million refugees in 2015, the AfD, whose leadership by that time Weidel had joined, turned its attention to stronger ...

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A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Germany is home to the largest number of asylum seekers among the EU member states. But a growing political shift to the right has put increasing pressure on these new arrivals – and those who ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged politicians ... groups over the breach of the "firewall" against the AfD. Merkel, a more centrist politician than Merz and his ...