The number of people seeking refuge and political protection in Germany rose in 2024 in comparison to the previous year, official data show. Meanwhile, former Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized ...

Merkel slams asylum rejections, railways miss punctuality targets for first half of 2025, and more news from Germany on ...

Despite their differences in style and focus, or perhaps because of them, Ardern’s and Merkel’s memoirs put the human side of ...

German leaders intend to ramp up defense spending and build the most powerful armed forces in Europe, but shadows of World ...

Berlin considers strengthening investment screening powers to stop any future investors reactivating gas pipelines ...

Lawmakers have voted to suspend family reunification rights for refugees who do not hold full asylum status. Meanwhile, as ...

Germany granted citizenship to a record 291,955 people last year, a 46% increase from 2023, with Syrians making up the ...

German ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel has slammed the rejection of asylum-seekers at the border under the current government. Meanwhile, the debate on banning the far-right AfD has gained momentum.

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized the new German government's decision to turn away irregular migrants at the border, even if they claim asylum. "When someone says 'asylum' here on ...

Last June Germany reduced its residency requirement for naturalization from eight years to five and even three in special cases. Many Syrians who arrived as refugees during 2015 and 2016 when former ...

‘Staatsräson’ and its critics. In 2008, then-chancellor Angela Merkel went so far as to call this commitment to Israel’s security Germany’s “Staatsräson,” or “reason of state.”In ...

Germany’s Israel stance shifts rhetorically but keeps firm ties rooted in Holocaust legacy and EU and trans-Atlantic strategy ...