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

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

Wild verbal battles in the Bundestag, loud demonstrations on the streets, talk of betrayal and of taboos being broken: it has been an extraordinary few days in German politics. On Friday, parliament ...

German lawmakers on Friday narrowly rejected a highly controversial bill to tighten migration controls, averting another ...

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

The German parliament has narrowly rejected a bill to restrict immigration proposed by the opposition conservatives with the ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the centre of his campaign ...

Germany's conservatives doubled down Friday on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict ...

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 ...

Germany's parliament faced the possibility of passing a law due to far-right support for the first time in post-war history, after last-minute talks to find a compromise to avert the vote to tighten ...

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 ...