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The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down as leader of her Christian Democrat party, saying she took ultimate responsibility for her fourth term government’s poor showing in recent elections.
Theresa May and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, have been in talks ahead of the ‘crucial’ next phase of the Brexit process.
President Trump will be hoping that peace in Korea becomes his greatest legacy, telling the German Chancellor Angela Merkel that talks on the issue had “never gone this far”. He also claimed that he and Ms Merkel had always had a “good relationship”.
Gary Gibbon
UK diplomats worry that prolonged uncertainty in Germany over the formation of a new government means that officials may take control of events and that hardens the German position. Some claim that it was German officials who shaped the setback at the European Council in October when the UK was deemed to have made insufficient…
Gary Gibbon
Manfred Weber, leader of the EPP in the European Parliament and an ally of Chancellor Merkel, has left a meeting with Theresa May feeling a bit more optimistic about the prospects for the European Council meeting in December. Theresa May desperately needs that to be the moment that Brexit talks move on to Phase 2…
Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term, but it’s a hollow victory given the pummelling she and her former coalition partners received. and the success of the right-wing, nationalist Alternative for Germany party. The AfD, which promised to fight “an invasion of foreigners”, seems to have capitalised on a backlash over Mrs Merkel’s…
An official result is not expected for a few days but the official projections show that Angela Merkel will secure an historic fourth term. But with her power-base eroded by a surge in support for the far right.
Promising more pragmatism in their relationship, and a roadmap to reform the EU, the new French President Emmanuel Macron has been holding talks with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, just a day after he was sworn into office.
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has backed calls for moves to ban the full face veil in Germany. Speaking to her CDU party conference, she said the burka “should be outlawed wherever it is legally possible”.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May seems to have tried to solve one big outstanding issue ahead of proper full negotiations: the future rights of EU citizens who reside in the UK and UK citizens who are living in the EU.
Gary Gibbon
Does she really want to first hear about the UK’s negotiating position at round a table with 26 other countries?
Matt Frei
Saint Angela became Time Magazine’s person of the year. On migrants, her mantra was: “Wir schaffen das!” (“We can do this!”)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will “noticeably reduce” the number of refugees given sanctuary by Germany.
Matt Frei
Berlin had calculated that the Greek people would come to their senses and vote yes. The opposite happened – and Chancellor Merkel must now untangle a Gordian knot of a problem.
It’s the meeting that had to happen. A radical left-wing Greek prime minister and a centre-right German chancellor whose ministers have been urging her to throw Greece out of the eurozone.