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MERKEL'S CDU AGREES TO PURSUE COALITION
The Greens have said they are open to a minority government... READ MORE›
MERKEL STABILIZES HER GRIP ON GERMANY WITH ENEMIES PILING UP
Angela Merkel returned to the international stage on Friday with a path to her fourth term opening up and her enemies in retreat... READ MORE›
'ALL PARTIES NEED TO COME TO THEIR SENSES'
'We are far away from chaos' - Edgar, 53, Stuttgart, engineer Germany has a tradition of coalition governments... READ MORE›
MERKEL OFFERED PATH TO FOURTH TERM AS MAIN RIVALS DEBATE BACKING
Schulz favors pledging SPD support for a minority government, an arrangement Merkel wants to avoid... READ MORE›
PRESSURE GROWS ON SPD TO RECONSIDER COALITION TALKS WITH ANGELA MERKEL
Martin Schulz, the leader of the Social Democratic party SPD, ruled out another grand coalition after his party's worst postwar performance in federal elections in September... READ MORE›
GERMANY STRUGGLES TO EMERGE FROM CRISIS AFTER GOVERNMENT TALKS COLLAPSE
His party's former labor minister Andrea Nahles has suggested the SPD would tolerate a Merkel-led minority government, but this is an unstable option Merkel has dismissed... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL'S CAREER IN JEOPARDY AS GERMANY'S COALITION TALKS FAIL
Angela Merkel's career in jeopardy as Germany's coalition talks fail Updated November 21, 2017 09 58 52 It wasn't meant to be like this... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS: FOR ANGELA MERKEL AND GERMANY THERE ARE ONLY THREE WAYS OUT OF THIS MESS - NONE OF THEM ARE EASY
Angela Merkel is in the fight of her political life to hold on to power in Germany after the collapse of coalition talks... READ MORE›
GERMANY CRISIS: WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS?
It won over many voters unhappy about Ms Merkel's liberal immigration policy, after Germany took in more than a million refugees in 2014-2015... READ MORE›
GERMAN PRESIDENT CALLS ON PARTY LEADERS TO RETURN TO COALITION TALKS
Coming out of talks with the chancellor, Angela Merkel, Steinmeier said he would meet all the party leaders this week... READ MORE›
COLLAPSE OF GERMAN COALITION TALKS DEALS MERKEL BLOW, RAISES PROSPECT OF NEW ELECTIONS
The participants failed to build the one component that holds a coalition together trust, Germany's Der Spiegel wrote in a commentary Monday morning... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | ANGELA MERKEL HAS FEW OPTIONS LEFT TO GOVERN GERMANY
Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at an campaign stop on Sept. 19 in Schwerin, Germany... READ MORE›
COLLAPSE OF GERMAN COALITION TALKS DEALS MERKEL BLOW, RAISES PROSPECT OF NEW ELECTIONS
The participants failed to build the one component that holds a coalition together trust, Germany's Der Spiegel wrote in a commentary Monday morning... READ MORE›
EUROPE FACES A HAMSTRUNG GERMANY AS MERKEL'S COALITION BID FAILS
Angela Merkel may be running out of road after 12 years at the helm in Germany... READ MORE›
MERKEL'S PARTY LOSES ELECTION IN GERMAN STATE OF LOWER SAXONY
The far-right populist Alternative fuer Deutschland AfD gained 5.9 percent of the votes, thus entering the 14th state parliaments in Germany... READ MORE›
MERKEL DEEMS MIGRANT DEAL GOOD FOR COALITION TALKS BUT GREENS SKEPTICAL
But underlying the difficulties in forging a coalition, the Greens said they disagreed with the migrant limit... READ MORE›
MERKEL 'AGREES MIGRANT DEAL' IN TALKS
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has agreed an immigration policy with its sister party, media reports say... READ MORE›
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GERMAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Germany's parliament has voted to legalise same-sex marriage by 393 votes to 226, despite Angela Merkel opposing the move... READ MORE›
'MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND WOMAN'
Angela Merkel has voted against same-sex marriage in Germany because she believes that marriage is between a man and woman ... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL CALLS FOR BURQA BAN 'WHEREVER LEGALLY POSSIBLE' IN GERMANY
Angela Merkel calls for burqa ban in Germany... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL SIGNALS SHE MAY BACK DOWN FROM OPEN-DOOR REFUGEE POLICY AFTER DISASTROUS BERLIN ELECTIONA
If I knew what change in refugee policy the people in Germany want, I would be prepared to consider it, Mrs Merkel said... READ MORE›
GERMANYS DEBT HISTORY ECHOED IN GREECE
Greece's creditors were not prepared to take a hit from a Greek debt write-down and then explicitly bail out their own banking system... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL CALLS FOR BURKA BAN IN GERMANY
Mrs Merkel distanced herself from the refugee policy a few months ago, and her party proposed a limited burka ban earlier this year... READ MORE›
GERMANY DAUNTED BY GREAT EXPECTATIONS AS OBAMA PASSES BATON TO MERKEL
Some fear Germany may struggle to assume America's status as torchbearer for liberal democracy after Trump victory in US... READ MORE›
GOLDMAN SACHS COULD BE SUED FOR HELPING HIDE DEBTS WHEN IT JOINED EURO
Eurostat has said Greece did not report the Goldman Sachs transactions in 2008, when it and other countries were told to restate their accounts... READ MORE›
GERMANS VOTE ON WHETHER TO GIVE MERKEL A 4TH TERM
Although polls predict Angela Merkel will remain chancellor, a far-right party is expected to enter Parliament for the first time in decades... READ MORE›
GERMAN STATE VOTE IS SEEN AS AN INDICATOR OF THE NATIONAL MOOD
In March, voters in Saarland, Germany's smallest state, returned Ms. Merkel's center-right party to power with 40.7 percent of the vote... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL AND THE HISTORY BOOK THAT HELPED INFORM HER WORLDVIEW
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ANGELA MERKEL ON TRACK FOR FOURTH TERM
German election Angela Merkel on track for fourth term... READ MORE›
GREECE DEBT CRISIS TSIPRAS FACING EUROZONE DEAL REVOLT
The European Commission published its own assessment on Wednesday, taking a more optimistic view of Greece's debt sustainability than the IMF but also suggesting debt relief... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | WHY ANGELA MERKEL, KNOWN FOR EMBRACING LIBERAL VALUES, VOTED AGAINST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Parliamentarians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, prepare to vote at the Bundestag on a new law to legalize same-sex marriage in Germany on Friday, in Berlin... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL ENDORSES PARTY'S CALL FOR PARTIAL BAN ON BURQA AND NIQAB
Burhan Kesici, the general secretary of Germany's Islamic Council, criticised Merkel's comments... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL ADMITS MISTAKES OVER ASYLUM SEEKERS AFTER DISASTROUS ELECTION
Angela Merkel has taken responsibility for her party's disastrous showing in Sunday's Berlin state election, admitting mistakes in her handling of last year's refugee crisis... READ MORE›
GREEK MPS DEBATE CONTROVERSIAL REFORMS PLAN
Mr Tsipras has asked eurozone and other creditors for EUR53.5bn 59.47bn to cover Greece's debts until 2018... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS: MERKEL THE SURVIVOR EXTENDS HER REIGN AS EUROPE'S LONGEST SERVING LEADER
Merkel, 63, extends her 12-year tenure as Europe's longest-serving democratically elected leader... READ MORE›
HERE'S WHY YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO THIS WEEKEND'S GERMAN ELECTION
Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany, is a former scientist with a doctorate in physical chemistry... READ MORE›
GREECE WILL NOT DEFAULT - PM TSIPRAS
Greece election New Greek PM Alexis Tsipras says his country will not default on its debts... READ MORE›
GERMANY: MERKEL'S PARTY SUFFERS LOSS IN BERLIN ELECTION
I think it is dangerous to transfer the Berlin result to the federal level, he told broadcaster ZDF... READ MORE›
FAR-RIGHT GERMAN PARTY IS POISED TO BREAK POSTWAR TABOO
The Alternative for Germany may win seats in the federal Parliament, the first far-right party to do so since World War II... READ MORE›
ONE INJURED IN EXPLOSION AFTER OPENING AN ENVELOPE AT IMF
Paris One injured in explosion after opening an envelope at IMF... READ MORE›
GERMANY FACES FIRST FAR-RIGHT PARTY IN PARLIAMENT SINCE SECOND WORLD WAR
But Merkel's decision that same year to allow more than 1 million refugees to enter Germany reanimated the party... READ MORE›
AS GREEK BAILOUT DEAL PASSES TSIPRAS FACES REBELLION
ATHENS -- The Greek Parliament approved an international loan deal early Friday that the government needs to avoid defaulting on a debt payment next week... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKELS PARTY SCORES BIG WIN IN KEY GERMAN STATE ELECTION
Cheers erupted at the state headquarters of Ms. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union when early results came in... READ MORE›
PERSONALITIES CLASHING OVER HOW TO HANDLE NEW GREEK BAILOUT
Debt relief, many economists say, is no longer a matter for debate but an unavoidable necessity... READ MORE›
GERMAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES DEAL FOR GREEK BAILOUT
With resistance to providing more help to Greece growing among conservatives, 439 lawmakers voted in favor of moving ahead with the bailout deal European leaders negotiated last weekend in Brussels... READ MORE›
MERKEL LEADING IN POLLS OVER SCHULZ AFTER TV DEBATE
Members of Merkel's party feted the results, with Julia Kloeckner tweeting Angela Merkel Stateswoman... READ MORE›
EU SHOULD AIM TO KEEP 'CLOSE RELATIONSHIP' WITH POST-BREXIT BRITAIN, SAYS GERMAN ECONOMY MINISTER
The European Union should aim to maintain close ties with Britain after Brexit, the German vice-chancellor said on Thursday... READ MORE›