Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

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

The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own ...

Friedrich Merz, likely the next chancellor, shocks the country by promising to control its borders.

The conservative CDU/CSU party is hardening its stance on irregular immigration. Others in Europe have already paved the way.

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens ...

Protests have erupted across Germany in the wake of two contentious parliamentary votes on immigration, with marchers venting ...

Germany will hold a snap national election on Feb. 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition.

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

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

Friedrich Merz caused dismay within his party for saying the law was so important he was prepared to pass it with support from the far-right, nativist Alternative for Germany.

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...