Germany’s outgoing government is the border checks it imposed on all its frontiers last fall by another six months as it ...

Friedrich Merz broke a political taboo by aligning with the AfD on immigration, winning a symbolic vote but facing backlash ...

In countries across Europe, nativist far-right political parties have dramatically expanded their vote share in recent years, ...

Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting a failed immigration gambit ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become the country's next chancellor, has vowed to work ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

Germany has extended border checks for six more months to curb irregular migration, impacting movement within the Schengen ...

In today's edition of the Capitals, read about the gunshots that changed Robert Fico, how Germans are not turned off by ...

Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democratic Union candidate for chancellor, speaks at a campaign event in Stromberg, Germany, on Friday. (Thomas Frey/DPA/AP) BERLIN — Angst (a German word ...

Viewers surveyed on Sunday thought that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) narrowly won the TV debate against his rival Friedrich Merz from the conservative CDU. In a survey conducted by the ...

BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused his main challenger in the upcoming election of “constant about turns,” while Friedrich Merz, the opposition leader and front-runner ...