Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has presented a five-point plan to end irregular migration. However, both EU and German law would make it difficult for him to set his plan in motion.

The CDU party chief, who leads in the polls to become the next chancellor, said he would collect votes from all parties to ...

Former chancellor’s intervention exposes deep rift within country’s conservatives over how to handle the far right’s rising ...

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

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 likely next chancellor wants tougher migration measures even with AfD support, triggering a fierce pre-election ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has floated proposing legislation to tighten Germany's border controls, and claimed ...

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

Context: Brussels is “reviewing” its probes into tech groups including Apple, Meta and Google, launched under its landmark ...

Social Democrat Scholz warns that Merz's proposal for permanent border controls would violate EU law, damage the economy, and ...

Comparing Friedrich Merz to Viktor Orban is more of a compliment than an insult, State Secretary Zoltan Kovacs wrote.

Germany's opposition leader Friedrich Merz is under fire for vowing ... flow of migration at Germany's border. For his part, Merz called EU-wide rules "recognisably dysfunctional" and insisted ...