Conservative leader’s gambit to weaken the postwar ‘firewall’ may be a boon for the AfD ahead of a national election.

Around 160,000 gathered at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, next to the Bundestag lower house, according to the Berlin police. The ...

Tens of thousands have protested across Germany against the center-right leader and front-runner in a Feb. 25 election for ...

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

Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democrats has reaffirmed his principled rejection of cooperation ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz on Wednesday defended his controversial migration reforms after stinging criticism ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...

Four weeks before Germany’s snap election, the political temperature is rising as the campaign shifts onto the contentious ...

It was perhaps the most dramatic week for German politics in decades as the Bundestag on Friday held three nail-biting votes to tighten migration rules after yet another terrorist attack committed by ...

Chancellor Scholz says rival Merz joining forces with far-right party in parliament to introduce stricter migration ...

The front-runner to become Germany's next chancellor, conservative bloc leader Friedrich Merz, has again categorically ruled ...

The AfD is currently running second in polls before the election, sitting comfortably ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, though well behind Mr. Merz’s Christian Democrats.