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MERKELS WISHES FOR 2018: MORE EMPATHY AND A NEW GOVERNMENT
In her New Years address, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany promised to work swiftly on a new coalition, and to help heal rifts in society... READ MORE›
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›
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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›
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›
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›
GREECE VOTES NO: THE EUROPEAN UNION IS DYING BEFORE OUR EYES
An outdated European Union has been found out and rejected emphatically by young Greeks in the 21st century... READ MORE›
NIGEL FARAGE WE WILL ALL BE LIKE GREECE IF THE EU GETS ITS WAY
And it is an example of how the European Union is not just a threat to national democracy, but national security as well... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL AND THE HISTORY BOOK THAT HELPED INFORM HER WORLDVIEW
The British empire was a major engine of global change in modern history... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL ON TRACK FOR FOURTH TERM
German election Angela Merkel on track for fourth term... 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›
MERKEL'S PARTY BEATEN BY RIGHTWING POPULISTS IN STATE ELECTION - EXIT POLLS
Alternative fur Deutschland on 21 percent with chancellor's CDU on 20 percent in German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern... 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›
MERKELS BIND GERMAN DISCIPLINE VS EUROPEAN UNITY
Merkel faces a very different set of responsibilities starting with maintaining European unity in general and holding the euro together in particular... READ MORE›
60 MILLION PEOPLE FLEEING CHAOTIC LANDS UN SAYS
Nearly 14 million people were newly displaced in 2014 according to the annual report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees... 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›
THERE'S METHOD IN GREECE'S MADNESS - IT COULD PAY OFF
By contrast the Greek leader Alexis Tsipras announced on Friday that he wants to hold a referendum in Greece on the eurozone crisis on July 5... READ MORE›
UK VOTE ON EUROPEAN UNION 'WILL NOT BE ON 5 MAY'
But Prime Minister David Cameron has said this would mean ministers were barred from speaking about European court decisions and the EU budget... 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›
'A DARK DAY FOR MERKEL': GERMAN ANTI-IMMIGRANT PARTY BEATS CHANCELLOR'S PARTY IN HER OWN DISTRICT
'The beginning of the end' National AfD leader Frauke Petry celebrated a blow to Angela Merkel... 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›
GREECE DEALBRIDGES FORNOW A GROWINGRIFT IN EUROPE
The mess over Greece has hardly helped the reputation of the European Union inside Britain, but it may also help Mr... READ MORE›
WHEN RULERS DESPISE THE RULED: GLENN REYNOLDS
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Noonan notes the case of Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel... 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›
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›
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›
DAVID CAMERON TO BEGIN EU TALKS WITH EUROPEAN LEADERS
David Cameron is to set out his EU renegotiation aims at a meeting of European leaders in Brussels later... READ MORE›