Merkel criticizes German front-runner Merz over migration vote with far-right support
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader, the front-runner in Germany’s election next month, for putting to parliament proposals for tough new migration rules that only passed with the help of a far-right party.
The former chancellor's comments come after the CDU put forward a proposal which was supported by the far-right AfD.
Conservatives have cooperated with the far-right AfD for the first time, amid growing support from the tech billionaire.
Friedrich Merz’s hard-line shift on migration is a calculated gambit by the German conservative leader to neutralize the far ...
R ARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar in Germany’s parliament, a tiny majority of ...
BERLIN — With Germany’s election less than a month away, center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown cold water on the prospect of reviving the country’s traditional grand coalition — bluntly ...
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On Wednesday, with the support of the Alternative for Germany, the Christian Democrats passed a motion on migration policy ...
Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become chancellor in February's election, is making waves by agreeing to work with the far ...
The former chancellor’s intervention exposes a deepening rift within Germany’s conservatives over how to handle the AfD’s ...
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