The government announced a sweeping crackdown on traffic into the country in September to deal with the 'continuing burden' ...

Germany's conservative parties and far-right AfD lead in the polls, with the CDU’s Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor ...

As the two frontrunners in Germany’s general election prepare to go head to head in the first televised debate, the former chancellor’s intervention is a sign of the concern within the political ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

German voters decide on 23 February who will run their next government, with Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats.

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

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

Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may ...

Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, firmly defends her criticism of the CDU for cooperating with the AfD, ...

Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her criticism of Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, leader ...