Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...

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 ...

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

Conservatives have cooperated with the far-right AfD for the first time, amid growing support from the tech billionaire.

A non-binding motion to restrict immigration has sparked outrage after citizens said the conservative CDU/CSU broke a promise not to work with the far-right AfD. Protesters in Berlin gathered outside ...

Shock after motion passed with far-right support for first time, charges brought against man who threw firework into Berlin ...

Alternative for Germany helped push an immigration restriction proposal over the threshold, breaking the "firewall" surrounding the right-wing party.

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday criticized her centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for passing a motion ...

When the CDU motions passed on Wednesday evening, by four votes, an eerie silence hung for a moment over the Bundestag chamber. Then AfD parliamentarians began applauding what they see as the first ...

The German Catholic bishops’ conference on Wednesday distanced itself from a controversial statement against tougher ...

Friedrich Merz leaned the right-wing AfD party to push through measures to restrict immigration.

A motion on immigration introduced in the Bundestag by the CDU obtained a majority on Wednesday with support from the ...