Germany’s Merz breaks far-right taboo, prompts backlash from Merkel
Friedrich Merz, the front-runner to become Germany’s next chancellor, relied on votes from the far-right AfD to push an ...
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Germany’s far right crashes through the firewall
Did Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, fall into a trap? Or is he forcing other mainstream parties to confront what ...
Germany’s Likely Leader Flirts With a Taboo: Working With the Far Right
Responding to the killing of a child, the poll-leading Christian Democrats are pushing to overhaul migration laws — possibly ...
‘Like a viper’: Friedrich Merz’s flirt with far right rattles German election
Friedrich Merz’s high-stakes gamble to enlist the far right in pressuring the German government to tighten migration laws has upended the campaign three weeks before general elections.
German Election Front-Runner Faces Backlash After Call for Immigration Stop
BERLIN—The front-runner in Germany’s election made a gambit this week to woo supporters of an increasingly popular far-right ...
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Cracks in the ‘firewall’ upend German campaign
Germany's Merz faced a firestorm over the weekend after he broke a longstanding taboo for dealing with the far right ...
Friedrich Merz vows to seal Germany’s borders after Bavaria knife attack
Conservative frontrunner to be country’s next chancellor aims to submit tough migration proposals to MPs next week ...
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'Victory means restoring territorial integrity' — Merz reaffirms support for Ukraine ahead of elections
"Victory means restoring territorial integrity with a democratically legitimate government exercising full sovereignty," ...
German CDU leader Friedrich Merz vows to toughen migration policy
Friedrich Merz, German opposition leader and chairman of the CDU party, speaks at the Global Leaders Dialogue in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.