No ‘wild-eyed’ exuberance, but Merkel remains ‘quietly alluring’
Europe Editor Matt Frei pops into Angela Merkel’s final campaign rally, to see why the self-deprecating physicist is still popular with the crowds.
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Europe Editor Matt Frei pops into Angela Merkel’s final campaign rally, to see why the self-deprecating physicist is still popular with the crowds.
With Chancellor Angela Merkel on track to win a third term, Channel 4 News looks at why Germany is still calling the shots in Europe.
On Sunday Angela Merkel attempts to win a third term as her country’s leader. With much of Europe facing economic turmoil, the continent is looking to “Mutti” – mother – to lead it through the crisis.
It is not in Angela Merkel’s DNA to exert a leadership role in Europe and the German people don’t expect it. But she is arguably the most powerful politician in the western world.
The G20 leaders are now in their first session. The sun is blazing outside and the temperature should rise inside over dinner later as Russia’s President Putin has put Syria on the menu.
David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agree to work together to make the European Union more competitive and flexible, say Downing Street.
Prime Minister David Cameron takes his family to Berlin as he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold discussions about reform of the EU.
David Cameron’s Europe speech is now confirmed for Wednesday but will it be Angela Merkel dealing with its fall-out after the German election in autumn?
Angela Merkel knows there won’t be a deal without David Cameron on board and she doesn’t want to be party to something that adds to anti-European feeling in Britain if she can avoid it.
Can a deal be done? Gary Gibbon has the latest from the EU budget negotiations in Brussels.
Is Europe’s most powerful politician losing patience with the David Cameron’s Eurosceptic demands? Political editor Gary Gibbon finds out what makes the famously undemonstrative politician tick
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel thinks Britain would not suit a lonely life outside the EU and will battle to keep them in.
Police fire tear gas and stun grenades at demonstrators in Athens who are protesting about Angela Merkel’s trip to the country.
Gary Gibbon blogging from the Euro summit in Brussels sees two different narratives emerging. Hollande says “Europe has been reorientated”; Merkel insists that nothing has changed.
Angela Merkel concedes. Gary Gibbon wonders what she will get in return?