After years in which Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been accused of treading lightly on European and world stages, conservative election front-runner Friedrich Merz has vowed a bold return to ...

Germany’s opposition leader vowed Thursday to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, tipped to become the next chancellor, said on Thursday he wanted to win back the lost trust of key allies and ensure Berlin is more assertive on the global ...

Friedrich Merz says he will close Germany's borders to irregular migrants, including those with a right to protection.

Merz, whose centre-right bloc currently tops the polls, is toughening his stance on migration ahead of federal elections next month.View on euronews ...

A deadly knife attack on a play school group in Germany, where an Afghan man was arrested at the scene, reignited a bitter immigration debate on Thursday, a month before elections.

However, some Germans blame the CDU, and in particular Merz's predecessor and longtime chancellor Angela Merkel, for ...

Berlin: Donald Trump s return to the White House has darkened the mood in Germany a month before elections, as multiple crises shake the foundations ...

BERLIN - The arrest of an Afghan asylum seeker suspected of killing two people in a knife attack targeting children in a ...

Berlin blames Bavaria. Bavaria blames Berlin. With migrants suspected in several deadly attacks, German politicians are jostling for position with calls to reform migration ahead of February's federal ...

The party's state association in Saxony is now officially classed as a "right-wing extremist" organisation. Could the AfD ...