As Germany enters the final few weeks of its election campaign, the man poised to be the next chancellor has doubled down on ...

At least 30 people were hurt when a car driven by an Afghan asylum seeker ploughed into a crowd in Munich, putting security back in focus before next week's federal election.

An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...

Merz's personal popularity is up four points in fresh polling released on Thursday – and his party gained too.

At the centre of the immigration debate is the notion of “welfare magnetism”: the idea that migrants are drawn to Germany by ...

Speaking to CNN in Berlin following his Christian Democratic Party’s (CDU) convention, Friedrich Merz said he would ... In January an attack in Aschaffenburg left two people dead, including ...

The vote will almost certainly trigger a change in national leadership, with Friedrich Merz’s conservatives in pole position ... In the wake of a deadly knife attack last month in the Bavarian city of ...

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

Frontrunner in bid to become chancellor criticised for relying on AfD to pass parliamentary motion on migration laws ...