Her proposal to suspend Turkish application for EU membership will find obvious backers in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic — the very states that EU itself is mulling action over the refugee crisis In little more than two weeks, Germans will re-elect Angela Merkel as Chancellor, giving her a fourth consecutive term and allowing her to…
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel highlighted her government’s economic achievements in a speech to Parliament Tuesday, positioning herself as the leader who can cope with rapidly changing technology as she seeks election to a fourth term later this month. Merkel, whose conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDP) is currently leading in polls ahead of the national…
Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to hold her ground in a television debate ahead of German elections, under attack from her Social Democrat (SPD) rival on refugee policy, ties with Turkey and her handling of US President Donald Trump. Merkel was some 14 points ahead of Martin Schulz in opinion polls before the debate. A…
BERLIN — Germany’s moribund election campaign just got interesting. A day after Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democrat challenger Martin Schulz muddled through a television standoff lampooned as “more of a duet than a duel,” the country’s smaller parties clashed in a pair of fast-paced, engaging debates in the race for third place. In…
(CNN) We’ve had our fair share of dramatic elections recently – the UK, France, the US. And let’s not forget Brexit. The German election on September 24 may be generating fewer headlines, but it’s no less important. Here’s why you should pay attention. Why should you care? If you’re in the US: Germany is one…
Two years ago, Chancellor Angela Merkel uttered her now famous refugee crisis mantra, “we can do this.” She no longer uses that phrase, but it still speaks volumes about Germany, says DW’s Christoph Strack. “A year like that cannot and should not ever happen again,” Angela Merkel tells her supporters at campaign appearances around the…
Under a new system, African leaders have agreed to register ‘vulnerable’ would-be migrants before they can seek asylum in Europe. More than 1.5 million migrants have surged into Europe since 2015. Now European leaders and their African counterparts are working to stop the next mass migration before it starts. In Paris on Monday, the leaders…
With re-election a month away, German chancellor says she’d do it all ‘the same way again’ while urging other EU countries to step up. Despite the massive problems that allowing hundreds of thousands of refugees into her country over the past two years have caused her, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the Welt am Sonntag…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the U.K. that it must pay what it owes the European Union as part of Brexit talks, saying it’s misleading to view the costs as a divorce bill. “This is about obligations that Great Britain has entered into and that naturally must remain on the books,” Merkel said in her…
Germany and Turkey are locked in a major diplomatic confrontation. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel had vowed this week to block any fresh Turkish trade deal with the European Union as long as the current Turkish government remains in power, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan retorted by calling on the three million-strong ethnic Turkish…