Tag: Chancellor Angela Merkel

Germany’s prolonged coalition government talks have agreed to abandon m 2020 emissions reduction targets until “the early 2020s”, the German…

UK new car sales fell for the first time in six years in 2017, with demand for diesel cars falling…

German politicians are calling for tougher age checks on young migrants after questions over the age of an Afghan asylum-seeker…

Germany has started constructing two youth centres in northern Morocco to house “street children” and young Moroccans who have been…

EU leaders have decided that “sufficient progress” on the first phase of Brexit talks has been made to allow trade…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has rejected the concept of a “United States of Europe” put forward…

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and her former centre-left coalition partners from the Social Democrats (SPD) are due to hold talks…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has gone back on her earlier comments about another election, saying it was “simply wrong” to…

There are positive signs of a potential break in Germany’s political deadlock as Social Democrat (SPD) secretary General Hubertus Heil…

Germany’s traditional parties could lose further seats to extremist parties if another election is held amid a failure to patch…

Germany faces the possibility of another general election after the right-wing Free Democrats pulled out of talks on forming a…

Poland has lashed out at the European Parliament’s concerns that the nationalist administration has undermined judicial independence and risks breaching…

Environmental policy has dominated talks on forming a German coalition, as the Green Party demanded curbs on coal power. Chancellor…

Germany has marked 500 years since reformer Martin Luther nailed his “95 theses” to a church door, marking the start…

Alice Weidel, the leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), has named the 1980s UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher…