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

The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Denmark ... becoming a major cost factor. Cross-border connections boost the EU’s internal energy market, but there are still barriers, especially regulatory, to ...

The breaking of a taboo among mainstream German parties on cooperation with the far right looks set to complicate efforts to ...

Germany has turned away 43,500 people during border checks over the past 15 months, authorities said Monday. Border control launched in October 2023 within the scope of combating irregular ...

BERLIN: Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, leading in the race to become Germany's next chancellor, pledged on Monday (Jan 27) to bring a law on restoring border controls before parliament this ...

The motion, if passed, would trigger an immediate declaration of a national emergency and enact a lockdown across all of Germany's land borders, with guards instructed to repel 'all attempts at ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has floated proposing legislation to tighten Germany's border controls, and claimed it would be on the SPD and Greens if he had to pass it with votes from ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner in the race to become Germany’s chancellor, plans to submit a migration ...

Shannon McDonagh is a Newsweek content reporter based in London. Her focus is reporting breaking wire stories across international politics and social issues. She has covered culture, politics and ...

Germany’s opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a ...

Washington — Citing President Trump's extraordinary move to close the American asylum system, U.S. border agents have been instructed to summarily deport migrants crossing into the country ...

Friedrich Merz promised in effect to close Germany's borders to all irregular migrants, including those with a right to protection. A two-year-old boy of Moroccan origin and a man aged 41 were ...