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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she is "slightly optimistic" about crunch climate talks in Copenhagen being a success but called on emerging giants China and India to contribute more.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Germany’s Free Democratic Party, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner, must repay 3.46 million euros ($5.1 million) in state party funding, a Berlin court ruled.
Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved Wednesday the extension by one year of military deployments off the coast of Somalia and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The military currently has some 240 personnel engaged in the European Union's ...
Mainz, Germany - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Monday for movement by India and China at the world climate summit. Speaking in a special news broadcast on Germany's ZDF public television, she said big emerging economies had not offered enoug...
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is urging Greece to tackle soaring debt and offered support to help the Greek administration get public finances back under control.
Berlin - The junior party in Chancellor Angela Merkel's German coalition, the Free Democratic Party (FDP), lost a court appeal in Berlin Tuesday against a huge fine for accounting irregularities. The administrative tribunal for the state of Berlin re...
Berlin - Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, will have a tough time topping the glory of 2009, the year when she held centre stage on the poignant anniversary of the Fall of the W...
Germany has filed terrorism charges against a Turkish-German dual citizen allegedly linked to a member of a cell that plotted to attack U.S. targets, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Berlin - The opposition Social Democrats (SPD) has called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to make a quick decision on whether Germany will send extra troops to Afghanistan, a party spokesman said Sunday. In the wake of US President Barack Obama's ...
The past caught up with the German state of Brandenburg when several legislators belonging to the Left Party, the successor to the Communist Party, admitted to collaborating with the East German secret police.
BERLIN (AP) — Negotiators at the Copenhagen climate summit should agree to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by mid-century, and countries must make better offers of action, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday.
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government won’t back the introduction of a tax on financial transactions to finance development aid, German Development Minister Dirk Niebel said.
Berlin - Germany is to assist Brazil in staging the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel after a meeting in Berlin Thursday with visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The Germans are to provide sim...
FRANKFURT - German carmaker Daimler AG has reached an agreement that gives job security until the end of 2019 to 37,000 employees at its biggest plant in Germany, a spokesman said Wednesday.
( Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres ) Germany will participate in the largest and most ambitious biomedical research project since the Human Genome Project. Coordinated by the German Cancer Research Center, the German participants of the International Cancer Genome Consortium will start their work in January. Their aim is to analyze the molecular causes of childhood brain tumors ...
Stuttgart - German officials are planning to step up the fight against online viruses by phoning internet users to warn them their computers are infected, an industry summit was told Tuesday. Germany's federal computer security agency (BSI) and the G...
Germany's new development minister said Saturday he opposed taxing financial transactions, putting him at odds with support for such a levy expressed earlier this year by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- Holiday shopping in Germany is currently in full swing following a disappointing business in November, Hubertus Pellengahr, spokesman for German retailer association HDE said Wednesday in Berlin.
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- German government aid to struggling carmaker Adam Opel GmbH, a unit of General Motors Co., would distort competition in Germany, a competition advisor to the government said Wednesday.
Stuttgart - A survey funded by the German government suggested Tuesday that Germany has slumped into mediocrity in the computing field, although it hosts one of the world's top computer trade fairs, CeBIT. The findings were released at a summit in ...
(Adds comment from the Association of German Exporters and Wholesalers.) FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Exports in Germany continued to rise in October, reinforcing hopes that Europe's largest economy is on the path to recovery.
