Friedrich Merz faces urgent economic and geopolitical crises. But to form a coalition he needs to turn foes into friends – ...

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Germany argues that border controls an prevent deadly attacks such as those recently Magdeburg and Munich. It has so far extended the checks until September. But the CSV-DP coalition rejected calls ...

The remoteness of urban centres is also a penalising factor: the only town classed as big on French territory within easy ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron will host leaders from key European countries on Monday to discuss the continent's ...

Germany’s outgoing government is the border checks it imposed on all its frontiers last fall by another six months as it attempts to cut the number of migrants arriving in the country ...

Austria and Germany threw open their borders on Saturday to thousands of exhausted migrants, bussed to the frontier by a right-wing Hungarian government that had tried to stop them. Left to walk the ...

It is unclear under what jurisdiction thousands of people are being detained at the UK-France border, how long they are being detained, under what conditions, and what is happening with their ...

The son-in-law of a Mexican drug lord pleaded guilty this week to a scheme that used violence and threats to fix prices and control the transnational used-car market at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Germany reported a 37% drop in asylum applications in January after implementing stricter border control measures across its frontiers. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced on Tuesday that ...

and is instead simply aiming to increase border security, hold up refugees and asylum seekers in transit, and rapidly deport those not eligible for protection. Last summer saw a surge of far-right ...