BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives won a state election Sunday in their center-left rivals’ traditional heartland, a stinging blow to the German leader’s challenger in September’s national election.
An election Sunday in Germany’s most populous state is serving as a prelude to September’s national vote. It could give conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel new momentum in her quest for a fourth term – or offer her center-left challenger some relief.
Angela Merkel’s party continues to fall from favour with German voters, according the the latest poll for Bild on Sunday. Polling organisation Emnid’s figures show that the percentage of people intending to vote for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister
TEL AVIV – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party on Wednesday passed a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, labeling anti-Israel activism as anti-Semitic and comparing BDS to Nazi boycotts.
Christian Social Union (CSU) leader Horst Seehofer has praised President-Elect Donald J. Trump and has invited him to Bavaria.
The Christian Democratic Union, the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have had their worst election result ever in the German capital of Berlin.
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Senior German Ministers have called for a ban on wearing the burka to be included in the new “Berlin Declaration” security measures. One CDU member called the full-face veil “a symbol of oppression and parallel societies”.
The German government is blocking a Greek bailout in fear of being democratically replaced by the populist, Eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party. In “AfD is the major hurdle in the Greek bailout”, Die Welt’s deputy economics editor, Jan Dams, has
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JERUSALEM – Greece announced its refusal to adhere to the European Union’s policy of labeling Israeli products manufactured in the West Bank, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem, theTower.org reported. Greece’s rejection of the EU guidelines follows a visit to Israel by
BERLIN, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Senior German conservatives are urging a flexible application of Germany’s new minimum wage in relation to refugees, arguing that those with minimal qualifications could struggle to find jobs at the 8.50 euro ($9.60) hourly rate. Deputy
Julia Klöckner, a senior colleague of Angela Merkel’s, has demanded that immigrants to liberal Germany adapt to their new country’s culture and not the other way round. With over 230,000 migrants arriving this year, the Huffington Post reports there is a huge
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have rebuffed her “open door” approach to the European migrant crisis, echoing the concerns of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban who declared his opposition to vast numbers of Muslims
