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

Friedrich Merz, hitherto favourite to become Germany's next chancellor, suffered a blow three weeks before a national election on Friday when 12 of his own legislators refused to support him in ...

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

The German parliament narrowly rejected on Friday an opposition-sponsored bill calling for tougher rules on migration that ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

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

BERLIN - Germany's parliament rejected on Friday an opposition draft law on tightening immigration policy, averting the ...

GERMANY’S parliament rejected legislation yesterday calling for stricter immigration rules. MPs cast 338 votes in favour, but there were 350 against and five abstentions. This followed a non-binding ...

US President Trump and his anti-wind crusade have returned to power, mirroring a global trend of denouncing wind energy.

Germany's conservatives doubled down Friday on allowing the far-right AfD to back their pre-election push to restrict ...

Dozens of people protested outside the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Berlin, after a motion presented by this in the German Lower House - to close the borders to asylum ...

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Germany to protest the conservative Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social ...