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MENAFN - Sun May 27, 4:34 am ET
(MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressing for faster progress on revamping Germany's electricity network to support the country's transition to renewable energy sources as ...
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The Irish Times - 48 minutes ago
German chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) saw their lead over the main centre-left opposition party crumble, in the sharpest one-week shift in German voter sentiment in seven years, an opinion poll showed yesterday.
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The Irish Times - Sun May 27, 11:39 am ET
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives saw their lead over the main centre-left opposition party crumble in the sharpest one-week shift in German voter sentiment in seven years, an opinion poll showed today.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 8:33 am ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A top ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives appealed to the opposition Social Democrats and Greens on Sunday to refrain from "playing political games" and back the government to endorse Europe's new fiscal pact and permanent bailout fund. The SPD and their allies the Greens - making common cause with France's new Socialist President Francois Hollande and some other ...
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The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News - Sat May 26, 6:52 am ET
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressing for faster progress on revamping Germany's electricity network to support the country's transition to renewable energy sources as it switches off its nuclear plants.
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Idaho Press-Tribune - Fri May 25, 9:49 pm ET
German chancellor Angela Merkel, second left, arrives at the chancellery for a meeting with opposition party leaders in Berlin, Thursday May 24, 2012. Germany's opposition leader says Chancellor Angel
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 5:05 pm ET
A German girl has been rescued by Bosnian police after allegedly being held captive by a couple for eight years during which she was forced to eat pig feed and pull a horse-cart.
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The Herald - Fri May 25, 10:22 pm ET
ANGELA Merkel is drawing up a rescue package to revive Greece's ailing economy with the blueprint used to transform East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is claimed today.
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The Star - Sun May 27, 12:28 pm ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A top ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives appealed to the opposition Social Democrats and Greens on Sunday to refrain from "playing political games" and back the government to endorse Europe's new fiscal pact and permanent bailout fund.
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Reuters.co.uk - Sun May 27, 8:53 am ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A top ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives appealed to the opposition Social Democrats and Greens on Sunday to refrain from "playing political games" and back the government to endorse Europe's new fiscal pact and permanent bailout fund. Related Stories Sudan's Bashir ready to pull troops from Abyei - Carter Indonesian media mogul makes leap into politics Fresh ...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat May 26, 9:48 am ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will not "pour money into a bottomless pit" and patience with Greece is growing thin ahead of a new election in the Mediterranean country, a conservative member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet was quoted on Saturday as saying. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper that Germany, Europe's largest economy and the biggest ...
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BBC News - Sun May 27, 11:49 am ET
A Bosnian couple kept a German girl as a slave and subjected her to inhumane treatment for eight years, reports from Bosnia say.
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Associated Press via Yahoo! News - Thu May 24, 1:35 pm ET
Germany's opposition leader said Thursday that Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted the need to add a separate set of measures promoting growth to the European Union's treaty enshrining fiscal discipline.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 5:13 am ET
BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Switzerland stunned Euro 2012 contenders Germany 5-3 in an entertaining friendly on Saturday with Eren Derdiyok grabbing a hat-trick against a makeshift German defence. The visitors, missing more than half their usual starting line-up with eight Bayern Munich players set to join the squad later on Saturday, looked a long way from being ready to challenge for their ...
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Bloomberg - Sun May 27, 9:05 am ET
German Environment Minister Peter Altmaier will push forward with the country’s switch away from nuclear energy, saying the country can’t afford a holdup on the issue, Welt am Sonntag reported, citing an interview.
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Bloomberg - Fri May 25, 11:05 am ET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government should help Iran expand renewable energy sources to solve the conflict over the nation’s nuclear program and prevent a war in the region, the opposition Green Party said.
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New York Times - Sat May 26, 6:38 pm ET
German pride took a second bashing in eight days on Saturday as its Euro 2012 countdown began in earnest with a humbling 5-3 friendly defeat by Switzerland.
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The Economic Times - Fri May 25, 7:43 pm ET
Merkel's veto on allowing Germany to underwrite joint debt issuance in the 17-nation euro region is under fire from her international partners.
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Arab News - 1 hour 15 minutes ago
Berlin: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour — equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity, the head of a renewable energy think tank said.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat May 26, 5:30 pm ET
Germany and the Netherlands, two of the sides widely-tipped as potential Euro 2012 winners, suffered worrying friendly international defeats on Saturday.