The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank ...

Germany's Social Democrats are doubling down on criticism of conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, after a controversial bill on tighter migration policy tabled by his bloc was narrowly ...

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

Election posters at a street in Duesseldorf, Germany, show the top candidates for chancellor, Robert Habeck of the Green Party, Friedrich Merz of the CDU and Olaf Scholz for the SPD, from left, prior ...

A law passing thanks to votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany would be symbolically important in Germany in that ...

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

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 ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on ...

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 — (AP) — Germany's parliament is expected to vote Friday on an opposition bill calling for tougher rules on migration ...

Despite his collaboration with far-right AfD party, Merz fails to gain majority in parliament for his anti-immigration ...