A new German political party, Die Freiheit (The Freedom), had its inaugural meeting on October 28 in Berlin. I was in town, so its leadership invited me to be the only non-member of the nascent party to witness and report
Germany’s attempt to create a multicultural society has “utterly failed,” Chancellor Angela Merkel said, adding fuel to a debate over immigration and Islam polarizing her conservative party. Speaking to a meeting of young members of Christian Democrats (CDU), Merkel said
The BBC reports: Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says. She said the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work, and immigrants needed to do
Barack Obama and Angela Merkel are the two main characters in what is being portrayed as a fight between American “stimulus” and European “austerity” at the G-20 summit meeting in Canada. My immediate instinct is to cheer for the Europeans.
Just as a frog will jump out of a hot frying pan, but will sit in water that slowly goes from cold to hot until he cooks to death; California’s politicians have sat quietly as the accumulation of chronic budget
German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Tuesday in a speech to Congress urging the world to ‘overcome the walls of the 21st Century.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the world leaders in 1989 — ex-German chancellor Helmut Kohl, former US president George Bush and the Soviet Union’s last head of state Mikhail Gorbachev — gathered in Berlin on Saturday for a formal ceremony
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday won the center-right majority that eluded her four years ago. Merkel’s win nudges Europe’s biggest economy to the right as claws its way out of a deep recession.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a resounding reelection in today’s balloting in Germany. That was mostly expected. What wasn’t expected was the absolute drubbing suffered by SPD, the labor/left party. Until this election, Merkel’s conservatives were in an uneasy, ‘grand
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that this week’s G20 summit in Pittsburgh must focus on drawing up better financial sector rules. Merkel said she would resist moves to shift the focus to imbalances in the global economy, including Germany’s
Telegraph: Television footage of Mr Berlusconi’s latest breach of summit etiquette shows him arriving to join the other 27 Nato leaders, including US President Barack Obama, for a group photograph on a bridge spanning the Rhine between Kehl and Strasbourg.