German's Merkel slams Swedish nuclear operator
AFP - Sun Jul 19, 3:47 pm ETGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel hit out at Swedish nuclear operator Vattenfall on Sunday over a series of problems at an ageing reactor near Hamburg.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel hit out at Swedish nuclear operator Vattenfall on Sunday over a series of problems at an ageing reactor near Hamburg.
Kiel,Germany - Chancellor Angela Merkel's party consolidated its lead in Germany Monday, with a provincial premier, Peter Harry Carstensen, ejecting the ailing Social Democrats from his government in Schleswig-Holstein state. Merkel and Carstensen's ...
Nuremberg,Germany - The Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavaria-only sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, stressed its independence at a party Congress Saturday by focusing on its different approach to taxes. With a German general elec...
July 19 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier , facing off 70 days before national elections, called for an end to Germany’s current government coalition as they vie for the chancellorship.
BERLIN (AFP)--Ten weeks before general elections, some 80% of Germans expect Chancellor Angela Merkel to win a second term, an opinion poll published Sunday showed.
Berlin - The German military honoured Monday officers who opposed Adolf Hitler, swearing in recruits at a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of a failed plot to kill the Nazi dictator. Chancellor Angela Merkel told young army recruits giving their...
July 19 (Bloomberg) -- Eighty percent of German voters expect Chancellor Angela Merkel to win national elections in 10 weeks’ time, the newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported, citing a poll it commissioned.
Germany and Russia are "working together for the future of Opel" the carmaker, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday after she met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Munich.
Berlin - The German government honoured military opposition to Nazi Germany and remembered victims of Nazism on Monday in a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of a failed plot against Hitler. Politicians and soldiers laid wreaths at the Bendler Bl...
July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s Christian Democratic Union voted to end its four-year-old coalition in Germany’s northernmost state with rival Social Democrats, setting up a regional showdown weeks before the national vote.
German Cup winner Werder Bremen beat Bundesliga champion Wolfsburg 2-1 on Monday to win Germany's Super Cup.
MUNICH, Germany, July 16 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss energy security and the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
Germany's finance ministry denied on Monday it was considering forcing the country's banks to accept public aid and partially nationalising them to jumpstart lending to cash-strapped firms.
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel slammed “Wall Street and the City of London” for financial recklessness, saying that Group of 20 nations must toughen regulations to ensure global excesses won’t spawn a new crisis.
BERLIN, July 20 (UPI) -- Pakistan appears to be losing patience with Germany over a deal worth some $1.5 billion to boost its 10-strong fleet of submarines, or it is playing a reluctant Berlin administration against Paris.
July 15 (Bloomberg) -- A coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s Christian Democratic alliance and the pro-business Free Democratic Party would create the most jobs in Germany, the BGA exporters’ lobby said.
July 20 (Bloomberg) -- Peter Harry Carstensen , the Christian Democratic premier of Germany’s northernmost state who has called for an end to the regional government coalition, fired the four Social Democratic members of his Cabinet.
Germany may force banks to take state aid to ward off a credit crunch later this year, the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said on Monday.
German wholesale prices fell by 4.6 percent in the year to June, the biggest annual drop in four decades, government statistics showed Monday. The drop compared with a 3.6 percent year-on-year fall in May and was the largest since the producer price index... Sponsored Topics: Producer price index - Business - German language - Wholesale - Germany
July 20 (Bloomberg) -- The German government isn’t considering forcing banks to increase capital, the Finance Ministry said today, dismissing a report in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party gained in voter support while her preferred coalition partner, the Free Democrats, slipped, according to a poll published today.