Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.

Tens of thousands have protested across Germany against the center-right leader and front-runner in a Feb. 25 election for ...

Tens of thousands protest against Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats: Merz had presented parliament with proposals ...

Around 160,000 gathered at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, next to the Bundestag lower house, according to the Berlin police. The ...

The rally in the German capital comes in the wake of the conservative CDU/CSU leaning on the support of the far-right AfD in ...

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

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens ...

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democrats has reaffirmed his principled rejection of cooperation ...

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

Without the migration policies since 2015, the AfD wouldn’t be anywhere near this strong,” says Vienna’s former conservative ...

Germany's two largest Christian churches have jointly denounced opposition leader Friedrich Merz's plans to pass motions on ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...