Friedrich Merz, a candidate to replace Chancellor Angela Merkel as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has questioned whether Germany can continue with its asylum policy.
Hillary Clinton on Friday called for comprehensive amnesty reform in the United States that would give a path to citizenship to “millions” of illegal immigrants after her comments about the need for Europe to curb the migration of refugees caused backlash among left-wing activists.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that European Union (EU) member states must be prepared to transfer powers over to Brussels at a debate on the ‘tensions’ between globalisation and national sovereignty.
Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said Europe should send signals that it will cut immigration, in order to combat the rise of populist parties.
Signing the UN migration pact will be “a win-win situation” for Germany, Angela Merkel has said, attacking concern over the controversial agreement as “nationalism in its purest form”.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels on Wednesday in a bid to finalize a Brexit agreement as she continued to battle domestic critics of the draft deal.
France and Germany have vowed to push forward with plans to curb national sovereignty on financial matters in the eurozone, with ministers from the 19 countries set to enter talks in the coming days on creating a common budget.
President Emmanuel Macron has heralded a Franco-Germany alliance which he says will lead Europe and stop the world “descending into chaos.”
Berlin (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron were due to meet in Berlin Sunday in a show of unity against rising populism in the era of US President Donald Trump.
There is “no question” of renegotiating the super-soft Brexit deal agreed with Theresa May, Angela Merkel has warned, as Eurocrats voiced hope that the divorce could be called off.
The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavaria-only conservative ally says he will step down from the post early next year.
Senior Brussels figures have expressed their ‘delight’ after French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed forming an EU army.
Populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Petr Bystron has blamed the Brexit failures of UK Prime Minister Theresa May on the attitudes of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the European Union who he labelled “stubborn” and “unhelpful.”
The former Canadian PM defended Trump against Macron’s attack on nationalism during a centenary commemoration of the WWI Armistice.
Chief Brexiteer Nigel Farage has demanded that German Chancellor Angela Merkel apologise for her open borders policy that led to the EU’s migrant crisis, calling it “the worst decision we’ve seen in post-war politics in Europe.”
Angela Merkel has called for the creation of a “real, true EU army”, days after stating that only through globalism and ‘United Nations values’ can there be peace in the world.
Brennan lauded Trudeau, Macron, and Merkel for their contributions to “global peace” and said he longs for the day when the U.S. presidency is “respected” again.
Horst Seehofer, a key ally of the Chancellor, has announced his resignation as leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) following Angela Merkel stepping down as leader of the Christian Democratic Union.
Chancellor Angela Merkel should not have attended the Armistice Centenary because Germany lost the First World War, Alexander Gauland, the leader of the populist anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD), said.
A group of German lawmakers have accused Angela Merkel of working to place Germany under Russian influence as she pushes on with a gas pipeline that would see central Europe directly connected to Russia for energy — just months after U.S. President Donald Trump warned against the potential consequences of the project.
While German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes she will be able to lead Germany for over a year after stepping down as leader of the nation’s largest party it is not a plan popular with the majority of Germans, with 62 percent saying she should step down before the next election.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing a revolt within her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as prominent members begin to opposed the UN migration pact recently rejected by several other countries.
A leader of Germany’s Central Council of Jews said Sunday he wants to combat anti-Semitism among new Arab-Muslim migrants through a government education program.
Political change is sweeping the globe and investors appear to like what they see.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is to relinquish control of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in December, sources have claimed, after yet another humiliating performance in a regional election Sunday.
Exit polls for regional elections in Hesse, Germany, suggest Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and her Social Democratic Party (SPD) partners have been hammered at the ballot box.
How many “peace conferences” and “peace plans” have there been since 2011, when Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad launched his genocidal war against his historic Sunni enemies?
BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s central region of Hesse was voting Sunday in a state election marked by discontent with infighting in the national government – and its results could help determine whether Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration has a long-term future.
The deadly shooting rampage at a synagogue in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh on Saturday has been condemned as “blind anti-Semitic hatred” by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Seven Syrians and one German passport-holder have been arrested following the gang rape of an 18-year old girl in Freiburg.
French President Emmanuel Macron has decided against holding a military parade on the Great War Armistice centenary as it may offend Germans.
The population of Germany is rapidly transforming according to a new study which shows low birthrates, high emigration, and mass immigration have led to a dramatic decrease in the number of native Germans in the country.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has revealed Germany has begun planning for a no-deal Brexit as Prime Minister Theresa May arrives in Brussels for critical last-minute talks.
Arab and Kurdish crime clans are “systematically recruiting” refugees and building parallel societies in Germany, an investigation has found.
The Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has scolded German Chancellor Angela Merkel after bruising results in the Bavarian elections.
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Monday to do more to restore Germans’ confidence in her unhappy coalition after a battering for both of her governing partners in Bavaria’s state election added to tensions in the alliance.
Fresh polls ahead of Bavarian elections on Sunday could spell disaster for the Christian Social Union (CSU) who look set to face their worst result in decades, as the left rally around the Green Party.
Weak punishments of as little as one year and eight months, suspended, for a migrant rape gang which targeted a 13-year-old girl have sparked outrage in Germany.
Angela Merkel will distribute €6.85 billion (£5.98 billion) to Germany’s regions to help pay for accommodation, social housing subsidies, and language classes for migrants, according to a Reuters source.
Stressing that Europe was “founded on tolerance”, Angela Merkel has warned members of the public in Trier against “hatred” and envy of refugees, local media reports.
