Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.

The first major survey of voters after frontrunner Friedrich Merz’s controversial alignment with the far right suggests the gambit failed.

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.

Christian Democrat leader tells Anadolu that European allies must strengthen cooperation with Türkiye on shared foreign ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has presented a five-point plan to end irregular migration. However, both EU and German ...

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

Merz had presented parliament with proposals for strict new immigration rules, which were supported by the partly far-right ...

Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor candidate from the CDU/CSU, criticized Donald Trump's tariffs on goods from Canada, ...

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with ... which would detach it from its obligations to the EU and dependence on the USA. The founders of the AfD explained that Merkel had ...

The German Bundestag passed Friedrich Merz's so-called five ... Convention as well as German law. He said that Merz's proposals would violate EU law, something that “no German chancellor would ...

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

Friedrich Merz has committed to implementing an explosive ... The ensuing German turmoil could be a precursor of what is to follow in the EU, as cracks are starting to show in Merz’s European ...