Merkel doesn’t like Miliband as much as Cameron – yet
Although she hails from the centre right, Angela Merkel’s political instincts are closer to Ed Miliband’s than to David Cameron’s.
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Although she hails from the centre right, Angela Merkel’s political instincts are closer to Ed Miliband’s than to David Cameron’s.
It would be an unwise person who put money on Jean-Claude Juncker to be next for top job at the European Commission, after David Cameron and Angela Merkel’s talks in Sweden.
No.10 have made a mistake in its slightly gushing briefing about the rapport between Angela Merkel and David Cameron. They’re dealing with a cool-headed rationalist.
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.
Prime Minister David Cameron pledges that he will not ask British taxpayers to underwrite the debts of ailing banks in Greece and Spain.
Chancellor Merkel has another saying which aides say she uses frequently in private: “If you climb up a tree you have to climb down it.” She may well be looking at David Cameron’s mini u-turn this afternoon on the use of EU institutions by the rest of the EU and think she’s watching just such an arborial stunt. Certainly some Tory MPs think they’re looking at some kind of climbdown and don’t like it.
Speaking after talks in Berlin, David Cameron concedes the UK and Germany do not agree on every aspect of European policy, while Angela Merkel stresses that both countries “need each other”.
David Cameron says he is hopeful a deal with fellow European leaders can be achieved by February, as Angela Merkel signals that a compromise is possible.
David Cameron is facing growing opposition to his European Union reform plans from leaders across the continent.
Spurred on by recent allegations against Fifa, David Cameron will urge the G7 group of world leaders to target corruption in business and government around the world.
David Cameron begins his whistle-stop tour to meet European leaders, as he begins talks on the “substantive” changes he wants ahead of the UK’s referendum on EU membership.