Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and has become a ...

Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winer Indira Varma star in a new production of Oedipus at the Old Vic, and ...

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 ...

In trying to avoid the mistakes of the past, Germany’s liberal politicians are pushing their country right back toward them.

Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, accused Mr Merz of making an “unforgivable mistake” by relying on AfD votes to pass a ...

Merz, now 69, represents a sharp rightward turn from Merkel’s centrist legacy. His campaign motto is “A Germany we can be ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...

Germany's conservative opposition party is set to team up with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to tackle migration - prompting anger from former Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU leader ...

It left Mr. Merz facing fierce criticism from political opponents, religious leaders, Holocaust survivors and former Chancellor Angela Merkel ... the AfD for the first time.” ...

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday criticized her opposition centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for passing a motion in parliament for hard-line reforms to migration policy with ...