Germany’s parliament rejected an opposition proposal to tighten immigration laws, preventing a bill from passing with far-right backing. The vote weakens opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who had ...

German Parliament on Friday (local time) rejected the immigration bill pushed by opposition's Freidrich Merz to tighten rules ...

Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national ...

Ever since the end of World War II, Germany's mainstream political parties have vowed to not work with extremist right-wing ...

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the ...

Wild verbal battles in the Bundestag, loud demonstrations on the streets, talk of betrayal and of taboos being broken: it has been an extraordinary few days in German politics. On Friday, parliament ...

Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

Bill calling for tougher rules on migration widely criticised for undermining ‘firewall’ against working with far right.

Despite the defeat on Friday in the German parliament of his proposed immigration law, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ...

Germany's Social Democrats are doubling down on criticism of conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, after a controversial bill on tighter migration policy tabled by his bloc was narrowly ...

Germany's parliament narrowly rejected a bill proposing stricter migration rules, sparking controversy over opposition leader ...

Germany's parliament rejected on Friday an opposition draft law on tightening immigration policy, averting the prospect of a ...