With cheers of surprise and shocked faces, Bundestag MPs narrowly rejected a migration bill on Friday pushed by the ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

Bill calling for tougher rules on migration widely criticised for undermining ‘firewall’ against working with far right.

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

Germany's Social Democrats are doubling down on criticism of conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, after a controversial bill on tighter migration policy tabled by his bloc was narrowly ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz suffered a shock setback in his bid to become chancellor after his effort to push ...

Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz defiantly vowed Friday to pass a bill to restrict immigration with ...

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

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz pressed ahead with tough migration legislation backed by the far right, despite protests that have splintered the country just three weeks before a national ...

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

A law passing thanks to votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany would be symbolically important in Germany in that ...

This is a summary of events surrounding the German parliamentary debate and vote on the "influx limitation law" on Friday, ...