PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, January 30: Friedrich Merz, Germany's conservative CDU leader and candidate for chancellorship, receives votes and applause from the far-right AfD party in the Bundestag ...

He was in his early 30s when he joined the environmentalist Green Party in 2002. At that time, the Greens were junior partners to the Social Democrats in the German government. That coalition was ...

However, on Friday, the German parliament narrowly rejected a bill calling for tougher rules on migration that risked becoming the first draft legislation to pass thanks to a far-right party.

German party CDU may once again turn to the far-right for support in an upcoming immigration vote. Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Friedrich Merz, German opposition leader and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, speaks ...

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People holding signs stand in front of the Reichstag in Berlin during a demonstration on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa via AP) ...

"Berlin has always been a city of walls ... from German businessmen totalling almost 2.5 million euros. Each was individually larger than the total in declared donations that the party received ...

Germany's opposition leader, Friedrich Merz, has come under fire for seeking support from far-right politicians for an immigration bill, ITV News' Correspondent Geraint Vincent reports Germany's ...