German opposition leader and Christian Union parties floor leader Friedrich Merz speaks after the debate and a voting about migration at the German parliament Bundestag.

Friedrich Merz is chasing voters defecting to the buoyant AfD and says that his policies are “right even if the wrong people ...

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash ...

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

On Wednesday, Merz pushed through a non-binding motion in favour of an immigration crackdown with support from the AfD, ...

The likely next chancellor wants to adopt the right-wing AfD migration policies while still sidelining the party itself Read ...

BERLIN — The front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has prompted fierce ... Far-right parties are in power in Italy, part of a coalition government in the ...

Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union ...

Social trust in Germany is declining, a new report based on the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) ahead of Germany’s February 23 parliamentary election warns. However, a possible ...

Interview with Michele Valensise, ambassador and new president of the Istituto Affari Internazionali: "We must live with a ...

For the first time in the 75-year post-war history of the German parliament, one of the major parliamentary groups has made ...