Women subjected to gender-based violence are to have a legal right to protection and counselling in Germany after a corresponding bill passed in the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, on Friday ...

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

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 ...

The countdown is on to what is perhaps Europe's most important election of this year. On February 23, Germans go to the polls ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the centre of his campaign ...

Despite his collaboration with far-right AfD party, Merz fails to gain majority in parliament for his anti-immigration ...

The bill had the support of both Germany's conservatives and the far-right party Alternative for Germany, which are leading ...

The Tories have celebrated the anniversary, with shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel saying it marked five years since her party 'honoured the democratic will of the British people and got ...

Sir Keir Starmer will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz over the weekend, Downing Street has confirmed. The two leaders are ...

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

A law passing thanks to votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany would be symbolically important in Germany in that ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) are considering legal action a controversial motion demanding migration reforms supported by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) passes ...