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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.
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.
As Germany enters the final day of campaigning, Channel 4 News examines the runners, the potential king-makers, and the possibility of a new dawn for Euroscepticism.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage says his party is opposed to racism and extremism, following Channel 4 News’s revelation that teachers at his old school accused him of being “racist” and “fascist”.
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.
The suspected gunman who killed 12 people before being shot dead by police in a military complex in Washington had been honourably discharged in 2011, officials claim.
Ahead of a Tory MP-led Commons debate on new family migration rules, Channel 4 News speaks to a family divided across the Atlantic – and a mother forced to miss her son’s first day at school.
The European Union says all evidence suggests that President Assad was behind the chemical attack in Syria – and that it should be treated as a war crime. But stops shorts of backing military strikes.
Britain calls on the European Union to send monitors to the Spanish border with Gibraltar – saying it wants evidence to prove that increased checks are in breach of EU law.
Britain should only take immigrants from rich European countries – a move that would cut Portuguese, Greeks and Poles out of the UK’s open labour market – according to the head of think tank Demos.
Portuguese medical student Francisco Ribeiro Mourao tells Channel 4 News’s Austerity Kids project that cuts to his country’s health system are hurting patients – and threatening future care.
The European parliament already has a voluntary register of lobbyists. But as Jane Deith reports, it has yet to deliver true transparency.
Italy’s Prime Minister Enrico Letta says he will be asking European countries to “help” the UK in order to keep Britain in the EU – and calls for structural reform to make Europe more “pro-growth”.
The Tory MP behind a bid to introduce an in-out EU referendum says that millions of Britons want a vote on the UKs membership of the EU, as the bill passes to second reading.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is stripped of her European parliament immunity and could now face charges over comments she made comparing Muslim street prayers to an occupation of France.
Following claims the US spied on EU offices in Washington, Barack Obama implies European countries also spy on the US, saying “that’s how intelligence services work”.