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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...
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...
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.
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 ...
Output in Germany's powerful industrial sector shrank in October after two months of solid gains, the government said Tuesday, dampening hopes of an industry-led recovery in the economy, Europe's largest.
Berlin - German exports jumped by a more-than-forecast 2.5 per cent in October, data released Wednesday showed, amid signs the export sector is driving recovery in Europe's biggest economy. Analysts had expected Germany's statistics office would repo...
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg pledged swift aid for confirmed civilian victims of a Sept. 4 air strike in northern Afghanistan, saying the government will talk with lawyers seeking compensation.
The popular German advent calendars are now on sale at Casper College. Imported from Germany, the calendars are the original "Schubert Schokolade Adventskalen” and cost only $4 each.
Berlin - German exports jumped by a more-than-forecast 2.5 per cent in October, further underpinning the recovery underway in Europe's biggest economy, data released Wednesday showed. Analysts had expected Germany's statistics office would report tha...
