Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national election on Friday when 12 of his own legislators refused to support him in ...

A Holocaust survivor has vowed to return his federal order of merit award after a German political party chose to work with the far right to secure a parliamentary vote.

A dozen lawmakers from Germany's centre-right CDU/CSU bloc did not cast a vote on the controversial bill to tighten migration ...

Bill calling for tougher rules on migration widely criticised for undermining ‘firewall’ against working with far right.

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

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

BERLIN - Germany's parliament rejected on Friday an opposition draft law on tightening immigration policy, averting the ...

Germany's parliament has narrowly rejected an opposition-sponsored bill calling for tougher rules on migration that risked ...

GERMANY’S parliament rejected legislation yesterday calling for stricter immigration rules. MPs cast 338 votes in favour, but there were 350 against and five abstentions. This followed a non-binding ...

Germany's conservatives doubled down Friday on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict ...

Dozens of people protested outside the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Berlin, after a motion presented by this in the German Lower House - to close the borders to asylum ...