Friedrich Merz leaned the right-wing AfD party to push through measures to restrict immigration.

The front-runner to be Germany's next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has faced criticism for accepting support from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. View on euronews ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has issued rare public criticism of her successor as the country’s center-right leader ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the leader of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Friedrich Merz, for drawing on ...

France’s economy contracted at the end of last year as tailwinds from the Paris Olympics faded and a government collapse ...

No one is happier than Orban that centrist governments have begun to pick from his extremist playbook on migration. Ideas that were rejected years ago as non-starters, such as sending failed asylum ...

From Nigel Farage to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, EU politicians are competing for the privilege of being Europe’s ...

German election frontrunner Friedrich Merz succeeded in getting a motion passed in parliament that calls for a migration crackdown including the rejection of asylum seekers at the country’s land ...

Germany’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday for the first time approved a non-binding motion by the conservative opposition to close borders to asylum seekers, relying on the votes of the ...