Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off.

BERLIN - Germany's parliament could pass a law thanks to far-right support for the first time in the country's post-war ...

BERLIN - Germany's mainstream parties were locked in talks on Friday in an attempt to avert the possibility of a law passing thanks to far-right support for the first time in its post-war history.

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

In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to migrants.

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

For the first time in the 75-year post-war history of the German parliament, one of the major parliamentary groups has made ...

Centrist governments all over the democratic world - sometimes leaning a little left and sometimes leaning a little right - have carried on in ...

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On January 25, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) held its first rally of the federal ...

Five people with Arab roots meet up in a Berlin restaurant to talk about Gaza. After more than a year of war, they say that Germany's uncritical backing of Israel has alienated them and their ...