These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought ...

Last week, the CDU broke the mainstream parties' so-called firewall of noncooperation with the far-right Alternative for ...

Over the past decade and beyond, the CDU has undergone a significant identity shift under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz explicitly distanced himself and his party from the far-right AfD, after sparking outrage over his cooperation with the AfD last week.

Favorite to be next German chancellor loses bid to use AfD support to push through immigration law, after days of turmoil ...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens ...

An immigration bill from Germany's conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz and backed controversially by the ...

The protests came after some parties voted alongside the far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), over a non-binding ...

An estimated 160,000 people have protested in Berlin against right-wing extremism, three weeks before Germany's parliamentary ...

Demonstrators descended on Berlin Sunday to protest last week's decision by Germany's conservatives to make overtures to the ...