Germany will introduce permanent border controls and will send back to other countries all foreigners who illegally cross the ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has presented a five-point plan to end irregular migration. However, both EU and German law would make it difficult for him to set his plan in motion.

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

Germany is set to introduce permanent border controls and will send back to other countries all foreigners who illegally ...

L OBITH, NEAR where the river Rhine enters the Netherlands, has been a border town ever since northern Europe has had borders. Buried nearby lie the remains of a Roman camp that in the first century ...

The free movement of people between the EU and Switzerland is a politically charged issue. Some Some Swiss argue too many ...

R ARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar in Germany’s parliament, a tiny majority of ...

Opening the door to leaning on support from the far-right is a gamble for Merz, who believes that his increasingly radical ...

Germany’s parliament has narrowly approved a call by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger to turn back many more migrants ...

The CDU party chief, who leads in the polls to become the next chancellor, said he would collect votes from all parties to ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger in Germany’s upcoming election plans to put proposals for a tougher migration policy ...

Friedrich Merz, likely the next chancellor, shocks the country by promising to control its borders.