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Friedrich Merz says he will boost border controls if he wins power in next month’s elections

Germany’s opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker spills over into an election campaign in which he is the front-runner

The machinations of Elon Musk and the incoming US president loom large in the minds of politicians and voters

Editorial: February’s election is shaping up to be one of the most consequential since the second world war

Protests disrupt far-right party convention in Riesa, Germany. Mainstream Union bloc leads in polls as election campaign gains momentum.

The AfD’s co-leader pledges to tear down wind turbines and praises delegates for ‘defying left-wing mob’

Thousands attempt to block delegates from attending meeting where Alice Weidel chosen as AfD’s candidate for chancellor.

Elon Musk praised AfD and its leader Alice Weidel in an opinion piece for German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

Chancellor’s New Year’s Eve address follows Elon Musk’s endorsement of German far-right party AfD on X