German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged industrialised nations not to let the enormous financial toll of the coronavirus pandemic deter them from investing in the fight against climate change. Speaking at the annual informal Petersberg Climate Dialogue, held online because of the pandemic, Merkel said she was not looking ahead to the next few […]
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Germany’s Merkel seen shaking for second time this month
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was seen shaking as she met President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday, her second such bout within two weeks, but her spokesman said she was fine. Merkel, 64, was attending a farewell ceremony for Justice Minister Katarina Barley, who is leaving to become a lawmaker in the European Parliament. The spokesman said […]
Merkel says still able to drive EU forward with Macron’s help
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she and French President Emmanuel Macron have “intense debates” and think differently but can still find compromises, insisting that they are able to drive the European Union forward. Macron, seeking to breathe life into the European Union as growing eurosceptic nationalism tests the bloc’s cohesion, has made euro zone reform […]
German comedian loses case against Merkel over Erdogan poem
A German comedian has lost a court case against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s description of a crude poem he wrote about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as “deliberately hurtful.” Amid tensions with Turkey over a TV satire poking fun at Erdogan, Jan Boehmermann read the poem on television in 2016 to illustrate something he said wouldn’t […]
EU gives theresa May ‘flexible’ Brexit recess till Oct 31
European Union leaders gave Theresa May a new Brexit deadline of Oct. 31, four months longer than the prime minister asked for, in a move the EU summit chair said would let Britain resolve its domestic deadlock on the issue. “EU27/UK have agreed a flexible extension until 31 October,” European Council President Donald Tusk tweeted […]
Germany adds six months to Saudi arms export ban: government
Some are calling German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s arms exports policy “unpredictable” German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government Thursday extended by six months an embargo on weapons exports to Saudi Arabia, instituted last October in response to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The ban has faced opposition from within the German government and the […]
Irans wishes to convert Sunnis in Syria: Netanyahu declares while on tour in Europe
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday that Iranian meddling in the Middle East could touch off massive new refugee flows to Europe, as they clashed about the future of the nuclear deal with Tehran. At the start of a three-day European tour dominated by strategic differences on Iran, Netanyahu charged […]
German parliament confirms Chancellor Merkel for fourth term
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, bruised by half a year of post-election coalition haggling, was Wednesday elected by parliament to her fourth and likely final term at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy. Lawmakers in Berlin’s glass-domed Reichstag voted 364-315 with nine abstentions for Merkel who was then to be formally appointed by President Frank-Walter […]