Image Germany’s chancellor ... I just look straight ahead on these issues,” he said last week. The AfD celebrated Mr. Merz’s announcement, implying that the legislation is little more ...

Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democratic Union candidate ... The new German nationalists — an ascendant party called Alternative for Germany, or AfD — are not jackbooted thugs who dream ...

Germany's conservative chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz explicitly distanced himself and his party from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in an interview with DW. Friedrich Merz ...

But on Wednesday, Merz needed support from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to pass a resolution on stricter immigration rules. This break with precedent prompted an outcry from other ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian ... was the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). They were excluded by the “firewall”—an agreement among the other parties ...

On Wednesday, Merz put a nonbinding motion to parliament ... of opposition parties including Alternative for Germany, or AfD, said they would back it. After an unusually heated debate delayed ...

Both the US and Germany have similar issues ... The moves show the kind of impact the AfD are having on the campaign and major parties. Merz lost the vote on Friday, handing what people see ...

Merz - whose conservative CDU/CSU alliance is leading the polls on around 30% ahead of the vote on February 23 - repeated his denial that the move represented cooperation with the AfD. "There is a ...

But the announcement was immensely controversial: in order to pass the motions, Mr Merz would need support from the far-Right Alternative For Germany (AfD) party, a pariah in parliament despite ...