The co-chair of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Monday said he was in favour of extending temporary controls along ...

An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...

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

Conservatives have cooperated with the far-right AfD for the first time, amid growing support from the tech billionaire.

Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...

Germany's two largest Christian churches have jointly denounced opposition leader Friedrich Merz's plans to pass motions on ...

Germany has turned away 43,500 people during border checks over the past 15 months, authorities said Monday. Border control launched in October 2023 within the scope of combating irregular ...

BERLIN: Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, leading in the race to become Germany's next chancellor, pledged on Monday (Jan 27) to bring a law on restoring border controls before parliament this ...

A leading German politician has unveiled a plan ... of a national emergency and enact a lockdown across all of Germany's land borders, with guards instructed to repel 'all attempts at illegal ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz has floated proposing legislation to tighten Germany's border controls, and claimed it would be on the SPD and Greens if he had to pass it with votes from ...

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Merz's proposal for permanent border controls within the European Union's Schengen passport-free travel zone was unworkable and a betrayal of Germany's ...

A German citizen has been shot dead in an exchange of gunfire near the border with Canada. Both he and his companion Teresa Youngblut, a US citizen, had been under surveillance by the FBI for ...