Angela Merkel - Page 5

February 10, 2020

Angela Merkel's 'heir apparent' in Germany quits, in potential shakeup to country's future

Amid Brexit and a populist rise from the far right, Germany, seen as Europe’s anchor of stability and neoliberal centrism, is now facing an uncertain political future as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “heir apparent” declared on Monday that she is quitting.

January 15, 2020

German lawmaker's office window riddled with bullet holes

A German lawmaker on Wednesday said he found bullet holes in his office window.

January 11, 2020

Amb. Richard Grenell praises German diplomatic action as Trump calls for greater NATO role in Mideast conflict

Progress is being made in swaying European nations to take diplomatic action on Iran, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell said Saturday.

December 6, 2019

Germany's Angela Merkel visits Auschwitz for first time amid rising anti-Semitism

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday, marking her first-ever visit to the notorious site in her 14 years as Germany’s leader.

November 29, 2019

Trump to meet Merkel, Macron at NATO summit next week, White House says

President Trump will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in London next week, the White House said Friday.

November 27, 2019

US ambassador blasts German economics minister for China communist comparison

The U.S. ambassador to Germany chided Chancellor Angela Merkel’s economics affairs minister for drawing an insulting parallel between communist China and America.

November 21, 2019

German Chancellor Merkel to visit Nazi death camp at Auschwitz

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will make her first visit to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz where more than a million people -- most of them Jews -- were systematically killed during World War II, according to media reports.

October 8, 2019

Brexit deal is ‘essentially impossible,' Johnson says, if European Union stands by trade demand

Boris Johnson, the embattled British prime minister, told Germany’s Angela Merkel that as long as the European Union insists Northern Ireland stays in the EU’s customs union, a Brexit deal is "essentially impossible," Bloomberg reported early  Tuesday.

September 24, 2019

Germany's Angela Merkel supports US-Iran talks but says lifting sanctions first is 'not realistic'

German Chancellor Angela Merkel encouraged talks between the United States and Iran Tuesday but said she felt it was "not realistic" for President Trump to lift sanctions on Tehran before a formal meeting between the two adversaries.

August 22, 2019

'Rude' Boris Johnson puts foot up on Elysee furniture during key Brexit talks with Macron

The British prime minister was labeled “rude” and “embarrassing” after a photo showed him with his foot on top of a table in France’s Elysee Palace while meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday.