Dogged by protesters, but apparently safe from damage in the polls, Friedrich Merz is putting a failed immigration gambit ...

Germany's far-right party, Alternative for Germany, has seen gains in popularity in recent years — Jan Techau, a director on ...

IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a ...

The hardline part has ‘an increasing influence on public opinion’, say analysts, as voters prioritise migration.

The Christian Democrats have vividly demonstrated that they will not be dissuaded from embracing the Alternative for Germany ...

Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, how the Greens are mirroring the xenophobic policies of the far-right Alternative ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his conservative rival Friedrich Merz of being ready to cooperate with the ...

The Alternative for Germany party helped conservatives push an immigration restriction proposal over the threshold this week, ...

Asylum applications in Germany fell by 34% last year, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, in news welcomed by the outgoing ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused his election rival Friedrich Merz of having broken his word by accepting ...