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Germany will turn away migrants without papers at the border under pledge by new chancellor Friedrich Merz as he scraps Angela Merkel's disastrous open doors policy on first day in office

Newly elected German chancellor Friedrich Merz has scrapped Angela Merkel's open border policy, and has issued orders to turn undocumented migrants away from the nation.

4 days ago

Germany needs a unifier. In Merz, it is getting a chancellor whose instincts are to divide | Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes

Merz takes charge this week, as German industry buckles and social fractures deepen. He will struggle to bring a wary public with him

A few weeks before Germany’s federal election in late February, Fr…

25 days ago

The Guardian view on Friedrich Merz’s grand coalition: gambling on a new centre ground | Editorial

The deal signed last week between the centre-right CDU and centre-left SPD paves the way for vital investment in Europe’s biggest economy

Some years ago, hundreds of German finance ministry staff dres…

77 days ago

79 days ago

Europe is looking to Germany for leadership – but these elections will dash its hopes again | Cas Mudde

The CDU is a big player in the European parliament, but its predicted win this Sunday won’t change Germany’s inward focus

What a difference four years makes. In 2021, the world watched the German elec…

3 months ago

Angela Merkel rebukes CDU leader for alliance with far-right on immigration

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

The former German chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised Friedrich Merz, her eventual su…

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