Since September, the Federal Police have been carrying out checks at all German land borders. The federal police commission has heard increasing complaints about officers allegedly racially profiling ...

The leaders of Germany's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats (SPD) have agreed on a common migration policy that would ...

Germany's new government is planning to turn away asylum seekers from its borders en masse regardless of agreement from its neighbours, a member of the incoming coalition has claimed. Jens Spahn ...

The preliminary policy agreement that will form the basis for coalition talks was "no mean feat", said Friedrich Merz.

Germany's economy is in desperate need of foreign labor, but a political environment hostile to all kinds of immigrants makes it seem unlikely they'll get it.

Germany will extend its strict border controls brought in to tackle migration and Islamist terrorism by a further six months past their planned expiry in March, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has triumphed at Germany’s ballot boxes, paving his way to become the next chancellor. His win is of particular significance to Europe — the leader has vowed to ...

Europe's largest economy has hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers still yet to have their applications processed.

BERLIN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Germany has extended temporary border controls for six months and informed the European Union, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday as he tries to show his ...

Austria will not accept asylum seekers turned back at the German border, the Interior Ministry in Vienna told dpa on Sunday ...

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