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German Chancellor Angela Merkel "cannot confirm" that she will attend a possible G7 summit of world leaders in Washington amid the coronavirus pandemic, a spokesperson at the Chancellery said Saturday. As CNN …
Senator Alexei Pushkov suggested that German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to go to the G7 summit because she did not agree with US President Donald Trump on the future of the Russian Nord Stream-2 project. “So far, Merkel has …
French-German proposal for a $545-billion relief fund is a big deal for Europe
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump during a phone call on Friday marked the end of World War Two in Europe 75 years ago, a German government spokesman said, Reuters reports. “Both commemorated the …
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday spoke on the phone to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, Anadolu agency reports. The two leaders stressed that for Russia and Germany this …
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have exchanged congratulations, in a phone conversation, on the 75th anniversary of the world's liberation from fascism, the Kremlin's …
The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, Alexander Gauland, opposed the announcement of the day of the surrender of Nazi Germany - May 8 - as a permanent holiday. "May 8 cannot be a holiday because it is a mixed day. It …
Italians and other Europeans are eager for Germany to take responsibility for the EU and share their financial burden. Even if it could, it wouldn’t. The timing is certainly awkward. The year 2020 was supposed to be the moment for …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to show endurance and discipline to get through the coronavirus pandemic that is “still at the beginning”, and called for a bigger European Union budget to support …
Desperate times call for desperate measures’ is the expression of the moment when it comes to summing up how countries are addressing the coronavirus crunch. Germany is no exception. As The Diplomat …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed “cautious hope” that Germans were preventing the spread of the coronavirus from straining the health system and slowing the infection rate, but warned that the numbers were no cause for …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is well and is working from home where she is self-isolated after contacting her doctor who tested positive for coronavirus, her spokesperson Steffen Seibert told a news conference, News.am reports. …
Last Monday, the French government hosted Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar on a brief, unannounced, visit to Paris. Accompanied by his top political advisor, my ex-academic colleague turned politician Fadel Ed-Deep, he met President …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that up to 70% of the country's population - some 58 million people - could contract the coronavirus, BBC reports. Mrs Merkel made the stark prediction at a news conference on Wednesday …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) will hold an extraordinary party congress either in April or May to elect a new leader, German broadcaster reported, citing party sources. The CDU congress will take place …
EU politicians face stark rhetoric from US as they adapt to Donald Trump era
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the U.S. Israeli-Palestinian conflict settlement plan, dubbed "the deal of the century," during a phone call, initiated by …
Chancellor Merkel, in Davos, has said the conflict in Libya must be stopped before another refugee crisis begins. She added that a global decrease in diplomacy was making regions like the Sahel more unstable. In a wide-ranging speech …
Foreign powers insist on preparation of the ground for a UN-sponsored peace process
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the situation in Libya in a telephone conversation, the Turkish leader’s administration informed. "Our president held a telephone …
