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Germany, Merz

Merz’s Botched Flirtation With Far Right Shakes German Election

The sweat was dripping off Friedrich Merz after the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor saw his bid to outflank an ascendant far right spectacularly backfire in the Bundestag.

The Financial Times · 2d

German parliament rejects Friedrich Merz’s migration bill backed by far right

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The bill fell short of 12 votes on Friday. Twelve MPs from Merz’s parliamentary group were absent.

The Irish Times · 2d

Bundestag MPs reject migration bill by Christian Democratic Union and backed by far-right Alternative for Germany

With cheers of surprise and shocked faces, Bundestag MPs narrowly rejected a migration bill on Friday pushed by the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and backed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Voice of America · 11h

Protests against Germany’s Merz who supports migration proposal backed by far-right

Protesters accuse Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats of breaking Germany’s unwritten post-Nazi promise to never pass any rule or resolution in parliament with support of far-right, nationalist

9hon MSN

Preserving the firewall: 160,000 demonstrate in Berlin against Friedrich Merz

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

What happened in the German parliament and why is the far right hailing it as a ‘historic’ moment?

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

Tens of thousands protest in Berlin against proposed German immigration crackdown

Thousands of people protested in Berlin on Sunday against plans to limit immigration proposed by opposition conservatives and ...

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German Bundestag blocks Merz's immigration bill in narrow defeat

The Bundestag rejected the CDU/CSU bill on limiting immigration. The media noted that this was a painful defeat for Friedrich ...

The Economist4d

A day of drama in the Bundestag

The backdrop to the drama was the murder last week in Aschaffenburg, a town in Bavaria, of two people by an Afghan who should ...

2don MSN

German opposition’s migration bill narrowly defeated amid controversy over far-right support

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

The Local2d

German Bundestag rejects immigration bill pushed by conservatives and far right

An immigration bill from Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz and backed controversially by the far-right AfD has failed to make it through German parliament.

Eerie silence in Bundestag as far-right AfD sees chink of light

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 ...

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German parliament backs election front-runner’s call for tough border rules with far-right support

Germany’s parliament has narrowly approved a call by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger to turn back many more migrants ...

14h

German chancellor favourite vows to press on with asylum reform despite far-Right fears

Friedrich Merz doubles down on ‘need for change of policy’ even after Bundestag rejects AfD-backed migration bill ...

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