The bill’s defeat — after Merz secured the passage of a similar motion on Wednesday — suggests that some of his own ...

A dozen lawmakers from Germany's centre-right CDU/CSU bloc did not cast a vote on the controversial bill to tighten migration ...

Intensive high-level talks were under way in the German capital on Friday, hours ahead of a highly controversial planned vote ...

In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...

The Bundestag rejected the CDU/CSU bill on limiting immigration. The media noted that this was a painful defeat for Friedrich ...

The German parliament has narrowly rejected a law to tighten up asylum measures. The controversy over the law, and how it could have been passed with support from the far right AfD, have rocked German ...

A non-binding motion to restrict immigration has sparked outrage after citizens said the conservative CDU/CSU broke a promise not to work with the far-right AfD. Protesters in Berlin gathered outside ...

CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz wird trotz der zunehmenden Kritik an seinem Vorstoß in dieser Woche, einen Antrag mit Unterstützung ...

The German Bundestag are debating the "influx limitation law" and will then vote on it. The law, proposed by the conservative ...

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

For the first time in the 75-year post-war history of the German parliament, one of the major parliamentary groups has made ...