Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

It was perhaps the most dramatic week for German politics in decades as the Bundestag on Friday held three nail-biting votes ...

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

In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...

The German parliament has narrowly rejected a law to tighten up asylum measures. The controversy over the law, and how it could have been passed with support from the far right AfD, have rocked German ...

BERLIN – Germany's parliament is expected to vote Friday on an opposition bill calling for tougher rules on migration that ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the centre of his campaign for the February election.

The centre-right CDU party leader sparked fierce backlash on Wednesday for accepting the far right's support in pushing a ...

Politicians from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) criticized former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her comments on ...

The country’s likely next chancellor wanted to focus on the economy—before suddenly betting everything on culture war.