BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s newly elected parliament held its first meeting Tuesday and elected a lawmaker from the centre-left Social Democratic Party as speaker of the 736-member lower house, or Bundestag.
Pope Francis had high praise for German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday, predicting that she will “go down in history as one of the great leaders.”
The European Union without Angela Merkel will be like Paris without the Eiffel Tower, gushing Eurocrats told the outgoing German leader on Friday as she attended what ought to be her last ever EU Summit.
Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on forming a new govt.
The Group of 20 (G20) held a video conference on Tuesday at which they agreed the Taliban must be actively involved in distributing humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan. The group insisted this concession should not be construed as formal recognition of the Taliban’s legitimacy.
Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday said talks surrounding a return to the nuclear deal have entered “very decisive weeks,” and warned every day without an accord would see the regime in Tehran continue to enrich uranium.
Merkel said that Germany remains committed to reviving the international nuclear agreement with Iran — a step Israel opposes.
One of three parties holding talks on forming a new German govt says discussions have “a long way to go” over significant policy differences.
Armin Laschet, the successor to Angela Merkel as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has hinted at resigning as party leader.
The likely kingmakers from Germany’s election said they will hold talks on a possible new govt under the leadership of the Social Democrats.
Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc sought to win over the environmentalist Greens for a possible coalition on Tuesday.
The two parties that are expected to determine who will become Germany’s next chancellor have started talks.
“…we will be very fast in getting a result for this government, and it should be before Christmas if possible,” Scholz told reporters.
Angela Merkel’s party has suffered its worst-ever election results in Germany’s federal elections, according to preliminary results.
Exit polls released after polls closed in the German Federal election revealed a neck-and-neck race between the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with their Bavarian allies and the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD).
German voters are heading to the polls in what could be a major political shift in Germany and Europe as the era of Angela Merkel’s reign as Chancellor ends after nearly 16 years in power.
BERLIN (AP) – German voters are choosing a new parliament in an election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after her 16 years at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy.
Merkel was met with boos and whistles at a campaign event alongside her successor Armin Laschet in her home constituency just days before Germans go to the polls.
The frontrunner in the race to replace Angela Merkel, the SPD’s Olaf Scholz refused to rule out forming a government with the radical left.
A survey pitting outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel against current French President Emmanuel Macron for the head of the European Commission has revealed that many EU countries would support a Merkel presidency.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a renewed push for the massive EU-China trade deal in a phone call with Xi Jinping.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.
Germany’s new ambassador to China, who was previously a senior adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel, has died at age 54.
Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarakis has reiterated that his country will not be a gateway for migrants to travel to Western Europe as it was during the 2015 migrant crisis.
Angela Merkel’s political party has fallen behind the Social Democrats for the first time in 15 years, as her potential successor falters.
French President Emmanuel Macron lectured President Joe Biden on the “moral responsibility” their two nations owed to Afghanistan during a call with the president on Thursday.
Europe’s had enough of Joe, the man whose arrival in the Oval Office they were treating like the second coming of the Messiah.
The German Chancellor decried the Afghan war as having been “in vain” while President Macron said it must not become a hub of terrorism.
Top members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government are lobbying for the implementation of vaccine passports in Germany.
A man died in police custody as the German force launched a crackdown of Sunday’s anti-lockdown protest, in which 600 people were arrested.
An average of two women or girls is being gang-raped in Germany per day, with foreigners making up half of all perpetrators.
Anti-lockdown protesters have been banned from gathering in Berlin over the weekend by judges who argued they may spread the coronavirus.
The candidate to succeed Merkel in Germany´s next election apologized for failing to credit a source in a book he wrote about immigration.
Imports from the Chinese slave labour region of Xinjiang have more than doubled to the European Union since the beginning of the year.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush criticized the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan on Wednesday, using an interview with a German broadcaster to outline his fears Afghan women and girls will “suffer unspeakable harm.”
Angela Merkel’s policies on immigration have been “fatal” to Germany, the countries former top domestic intelligence chief has said.
The German Chancellor said Europe is “on thin ice” in its battle against the coronavirus, as the delta variant threatens to undo progress.
“…our country belongs at the top on climate protection and it must become better able to resist pandemics, cyberattacks, populism…”
The German government responded Sunday to a rise in antisemitic attacks by banning flags of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
EU leaders reportedly blocked attempts from the UlS., Britain, and Canada to call out the China for the use of slave labour in Xinjiang.
