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.
(AFP) — G7 leaders were on Sunday urged to take urgent action to secure the future of the planet, as they finalised new conservation and emissions targets to curb climate change, and wrapped up a three-day summit where revived Western unity has been on show.
At least one good thing has emerged from the G7 summit: we now know that President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, President Bieber of Canada and the various other world leaders who’ve been sunning themselves in Cornwall are ocean-going, copper-bottomed hypocrites.
A poll on global leadership shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the leader most trusted to lead the world over President Joe Biden.
Final results saw a larger-than-expected win for Chancellor Merkel’s party in the last state election before a national vote in September.
Denmark’s intelligence services are alleged to have worked with the Obama administration to spy on German leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to a report shared with top European news agencies.
The Biden administration plans to scrap the sanctions on the Russian company responsible for the pipeline, despite initial signals that they would not.
BERLIN (AP) – Germany said Monday it is close to an agreement with Namibia on the killings of tens of thousands of people when Germany was the southern African country’s colonial ruler over a century ago.
The European Union has apparently suspended efforts to ratify a trade deal with Communist China following a series of tit-for-tat sanctions.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested Tuesday introducing “serious, powerful players” into years-long peace talks aiming to end the Russian-backed war in eastern Ukraine, suggesting Zelensky has lost respect for current mediator countries France and Germany.
BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Germans to accept nationwide pandemic restrictions that took effect at midnight, resulting in a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew and further limits on personal contacts and access to nonessential stores in regions with high infections.
NRW state president and party chairman Armin Laschet emerged victorious from the months-long power struggle on Tuesday.
Protests against coronavirus lockdowns in Germany, known as the “Querdenker” or “lateral thinking” movement, have been barred from gathering by regional courts in the country.
The new chairman of Germany’s ruling CDU has called for the nation to enter an even deeper lockdown against the ‘third wave’.
The left-wing candidate to replace Angela Merkel when she steps down as chancellor of Germany has said he backs the formation of an EU army.
BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed her country’s difficulties during the coronavirus pandemic – from the slow vaccine rollout to the back-and-forth over lockdown rules – on “a tendency toward perfectionism” and called for greater flexibility to tackle the latest surge in cases.
BERLIN (AP) — A leading figure in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Union bloc has warned that there’s a growing “mood for change” in Germany, as surveys show voters losing faith in the long-time leader’s party six months before a national election.
BERLIN (AP) – A lawmaker with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has died after collapsing on a plane during a flight home to Germany.
BERLIN (AP) – Under pressure to ease Germany’s virus restrictions, officials last month agreed to gradually reopen schools. Confirmed COVID-19 cases started climbing again, leading some states to backtrack while others pressed on and insisted that in-class teaching must be the rule.
BERLIN (AP) – German authorities are expected to extend lockdown measures again on Monday and possibly tighten some restrictions as they face a steady rise in new coronavirus infections.
BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “centre-right” party was headed for clear defeats in two German state elections on Sunday at the hands of popular governors from parties further to the left, projections showed — six months before a national vote that will determine who succeeds the country’s longtime leader.
Two states choose new legislatures Sunday, the first political test of a year in which will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel.
