Angela Merkel has admitted the existence of ‘no-go areas’, where outsiders are afraid to enter, in Germany — just months after Breitbart London editor in chief Raheem Kassam comprehensively documented their existence in his groundbreaking book.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has opposed German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s proposal to link European Union funding to migrant quotas, arguing for stronger borders instead of migrant redistribution.
A 32-year-old Syrian man appeared on German media this week thanking German Chancellor Angela Merkel for allowing him to reunite with his other wife and children despite polygamy being illegal in Germany.
Theresa May is calling for a security deal with the EU in Munich, while Germany’s foreign minister complains “we no longer recognise our America”.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a dig at Brexit during a press conference with Britain’s Theresa May in Berlin, saying she “deplores” it.
Anti-Brexit ranters responded with glee to a surreal papier-mache carnival float depicting British Prime Minister Theresa May holding a deformed baby this week, despite the PM having gone on record just last year about the pain being unable to have children had caused her and her husband.
Germany is the biggest breaker of European Union (EU) rules, it has been revealed, as the bloc threatens sanctions against Britain after Brexit and on Hungary for refusing forced migrant quotas.
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel finally reached a deal Wednesday to form a new German coalition government, handing the powerful finance ministry to the country’s main center-left party in an agreement aimed at ending months of political gridlock. The
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reduced a secret gathering of journalists to “uproarious” laughter as she recounted the British prime minister’s clueless approach to Brexit negotiations during the Davos meetings last week, in claimed remarks that come shortly after President Trump also said he thought May was handling Brexit badly.
BERLIN (AP) – German conservatives are warning the center-left Social Democrats that they’re not prepared to renegotiate preliminary agreements on issues such as migration after their prospective partners narrowly backed coalition talks. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Union bloc and the
(BLOOMBERG) — Germany’s Social Democrats backed formal coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel after a divisive party convention, marking a potential breakthrough toward her fourth term and an easing of political uncertainty in Europe’s biggest economy.
BERLIN (AP) — Members of the center-left Social Democratic Party in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state have voted against a proposed national-level coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc.
Calling multiculturalism an “illusion”, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán slammed the Merkel government’s “chaotic and anarchic” migrant policy, which led to a flow of “Muslim invaders” entering the European Union.
BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party and the centre-left Social Democrats are starting talks on forming a new government, attempting to break an impasse more than three months after the country’s election.
The deputy leader of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has slammed Germany’s new censorship law, calling the measure a “direct attack” on free speech.
Germany’s judicial system is groaning under the strain of an explosion in terror cases since Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the door to unlimited numbers of migrants in 2015.
BUDAPEST (POLITICO) — Viktor Orbán isn’t best friends with Angela Merkel but the Hungarian prime minister has found another way to wield influence in Germany — by sidestepping the chancellor to cultivate ties with regional leaders.
The Christmas market on la Croix-Rousse hill in Lyon, France, has been cancelled because organisers cannot afford the €20,000 security budget.
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Turkish migration researcher and sociologist Necla Kelek has slammed left-wing parties’ insistence that migrants be allowed to import their families to Germany — an issue proving to be a major sticking point in coalition talks — warning that the phenomena leads to problems with “political Islam”.
BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel faced pressure from inside her conservative bloc Sunday to aim for a quick coalition deal with center-left rivals without conceding too much ground on core issues such as immigration. Talks between Merkel’s conservative bloc
Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K Bannon has poured scorn on France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel as the “Ken and Barbie” of globalism.
Anti-terror barriers “lovingly wrapped” in Christmas paper to disguise their grim purpose are springing up across Germany. “Suddenly, overnight, they were there: huge Christmas parcels in Bochum’s city center; wrapped in pretty wrapping paper with stars, firs — and as
German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will discuss the possibility of forming a coalition government with the Eurosceptic, right-wing, populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), the nation’s third-largest political party.
AP — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she is “very skeptical” about the idea of running a minority government and new election would be a better option if it’s not possible to form a coalition. Merkel’s attempt to build a
While mainstream media in the West mocks Donald Trump for his poll ratings, the U.S. president enjoys greater support than do three of Europe’s most prominent leaders, according to a new analysis.
Germany’s liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) walked away from coalition talks Sunday night after weeks of tense negotiations, leaving Germany without any viable options for forming a new government for the first time since the Second World War.
Contents: Climate change superstars Germany and Norway humiliated at climate change conference; African leaders once again furious that they won’t get a climate change bonanza; The flaws in the climate change story
Homelessness in Germany has dramatically worsened with the onset of the migrant crisis, rising by 150 per cent to 860,000 between 2014 and 2016.
Germany remains without a new government as coalition talks following the September vote falter, and as frustration over potential partners’ inability to come to an agreement desire among the voting public for another election grows.
German media has obtained a European Parliament report suggesting a ‘No Deal’ scenario after Brexit would leave a €10.2-billion hole in the European Union’s annual budget.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has topped a list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, despite losing out to right-wing populists in the recent German elections.
In launching an international Vatican conference on the future of Europe on Friday, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx listed off his idea of the three greatest challenges facing Europe, the first of which was “climate change.”
BERLIN (AP) — The potential partners in Germany’s next government stressed Thursday their joint wish to form a pro-European administration that nurtures strong ties with France, though they gave few details as they began tackling tricky policy issues.
The campaign to force the German government to pay billions – if not trillions – of euros to Poland in damages for the destruction caused during the Second World War has gained a new voice in the form of a British Conservative Member of Parliament.
The deputy chairwoman and one of the public faces of Germany’s populist, euro-skeptic AfD party says that despite pejorative labels of “far right” her party is staunchly pro-Israel and looks to it as a role model.
Potential coalition partners in the new German government are expected to extract a high price from the leading Christian Democrats in return for their cooperation, and fears persist that the country may not be able to form a government at all.
Contents: Angela Merkel scores weak win in German national elections; Rise of far-right AfD party in Germany raises international alarm bells
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended an election campaign that left her conservative bloc in first place but significantly weakened as she embarked Monday on what could be a lengthy quest to form a new government.
Voting commenced for Germany’s federal elections Sunday morning, with citizens exercising their once in four-year right to elect new members of parliament for the Bundestag and select the next government.
