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BERLIN (Reuters) – Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is a warning to the rest of the bloc, which must learn to take decisions faster rather than looking to agree new treaties, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.

TEL AVIV – Following a meeting last week between German officials and Iran’s Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is slated to visit the German capital later this month, raising concerns for Israel’s ties with Berlin.

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Union should keep negotiating with the United States on a new free trade deal known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The EU and the US are officially

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s domestic popularity has declined, a poll showed on Sunday, with 50 percent of Germans against her serving a fourth term in office after a federal election next year. A series of violent attacks on

(AFP) – Germany’s economy minister lashed out at Chancellor Angela Merkel for her “wrong” stance on a huge EU-US free trade pact in an interview to be published Monday, signalling a deepening rift within the government over the controversial accord.

Istanbul (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel told President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday of her “deep concern” over the state of democracy in Turkey and voiced doubt that a plan to offer Turks visa-free travel to the EU would

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party is joining forces with the environmentalist Greens and the center-left Social Democrats to freeze out a nationalist party in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Merkel’s Christian Democrats came first in last month’s

Traumatised by its Nazi past, post-war Germany has carefully relegated right-wing populist movements to the fringes of politics, but the anti-migrant AfD may have muscled its way in from the cold. With discontent growing in Germany over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s

(AFP) – Danish foreign minister Kristian Jensen complained Wednesday that Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel had underestimated how many refugees would flood into her country under a former open door policy. Denmark and Sweden have temporarily reintroduced border checks in an

From the Gatestone Institute: It was only a few weeks ago that Facebook was forced to back down when caught permitting anti-Israel postings, but censoring equivalent anti-Palestinian postings. Now one of the most sinister stories of the past year was

Reuters – Popular support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel has tumbled to its lowest level for 4 1/2 years, a poll showed on Wednesday, with a large majority of voters skeptical that her government has the refugee crisis under control. The survey

The retired president of a German state court has accused chancellor Merkel of acting unconstitutionally, and of moving to build her own personal power at the expense of German democracy. Judge Michael Bertrams, former president of the constitutional court of North

The Bavarian president has spoken in uncompromising terms about “emergency measures” for self defence, including migrant turnbacks, but his suggestions have angered senior figures in Berlin and Vienna. No stranger to controversy, Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer is the leader of German

Childless German Chancellor Angela Merkel is suddenly fecund with millions of traveling Muslim migrants — and she wants President Barack Obama to quarter many of her new charges in Americans’ tax-funded homes.

“What we are experiencing now is something that will continue to preoccupy and change our country in the coming years,” Chancellor Angel Merkel declared Sept. 8. “We want it to change in a positive way… we think we can make that happen,” she insisted.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has told of how the U.S. government could topple most others in the world using information from current leaders’ pasts. He also took a swipe at British journalists who he called “gentleman amateurs”, and blasted the

Finally a sensible, practical solution to the intractable problems of Greece and the Eurozone. Well, sensible and practical by the standards of all the previous ones… An enterprising soul called Thom Feeney has ridden to the rescue of the Greek

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Berlin was still aiming to reach a political framework for a comprehensive trade deal between the European Union and the United States by the end of this year. In a speech to

David Cameron’s plans to cap the number of migrants from the EU coming to Britain were dropped from a key speech after protests by Angela Merkel, Government sources say. The German Chancellor, who is meeting with the Prime Minister in