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

German private-sector activity stabilized after six months in decline, an unexpected improvement that’ll be welcomed by ...

The incumbent government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat (SPD), has styled itself as a champion of the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

In Germany, a toxic national debate on Muslims and immigration has fueled the rise of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland. Polling second place ahead of February’s federal elections, mainstream ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, tipped to become the next chancellor, said on Thursday he wanted to win back the ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), with its anti-immigrant and anti-Islam platform, calls for Germany's withdrawal from the United Nations Migration and Refugee Pacts, reforming the Geneva ...

Germany's main opposition leader has demanded a sweeping overhaul of migration policy and permanent border controls a day ...

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