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

But that consensus, often described as a "firewall" by German politicians, seemed to have been undermined on Wednesday when a ...

The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own ...

The countdown is on to what is perhaps Europe's most important election of this year. On February 23, Germans go to the polls ...

Sources told dpa that Germany's centre-right CDU/CSU plan to push forward with a highly controversial vote on legislation ...

Intensive high-level talks were under way in the German capital on Friday, hours ahead of a highly controversial planned vote ...

The breaking of a taboo among mainstream German parties on cooperation with the far right looks set to complicate efforts to ...

A vote in Germany's national parliament (Bundestag) has led to fears that the firewall supposedly separating mainstream <a target=_blank href=http ...

The managing director of the parliamentary group of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Bernd Baumann and ...

German party leaders were engaged in furious last-minute talks on Friday, delaying a high-stakes debate on an immigration ...