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Germany is holding a federal election on February 23 – a snap vote called by chancellor Olaf Scholz when his coalition government fell apart at the end of last year. Parties are running to win seats in the national parliament, or Bundestag. And with an unusual level of interest from…

As Germany elects its next Bundestag, migration remains one of the most important issues to voters. But politicians are not debating how to attract the 288,000 migrants the country needs every year to maintain its workforce. Rather, parties struggle over who can promise the most deportations and the tightest border…

Conservative Friedrich Merz shattered a political taboo. His blunder gives the centre-left has a chance in the 23 February election

The hardline party has ‘an increasing influence on public opinion’, say analysts, as voters prioritise migration.

With only a few weeks until Germany’s election, Elon Musk has unambiguously thrown his support behind the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. In a video address to a party rally last week, he appeared to urge Germans to “move on” from any “past guilt” related to the Holocaust.

The CDU relied on AfD to pass a motion for the controversial bill, breaking a decades-long tradition of excluding the far-right

A vote in Germany’s national parliament (Bundestag) has led to fears that the firewall supposedly separating mainstream political parties and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been blown apart.

Greens and SPD earlier refused to support the Influx Limitation Act amid fierce criticism from Merkel over Merz’s cooperation with AfD

Albrecht Weinberg ‘horrified’ that MPs relied on far-right party to pass anti-immigration motion

Ex-chancellor makes rare intervention to criticise her own party for passing asylum policy with support of AfD

An anti-migration motion brought by the main opposition conservatives – the CDU – was passed with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)