Angela Merkel

The new German parliament has elected Olaf Scholz as chancellor as Angela Merkel departs after 16 years at...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited her likely successor Finance Minister Olaf Scholz to join bilateral discussions with...

Some of the topics that top the bilateral agenda include strategic cooperation in the field of climate change,...

There is no doubt that the Western Balkans and EU enlargement will remain high on Germany’s agenda. Whoever...

President Aleksandar Vucic welcomed at the "Nikola Tesla" Airport German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will pay a two-day...

For the first time in 15 years, one opinion poll this week has given the centre left a...

Angela Merkel’s farewell visit to the White House was shadowed Thursday by pressing issues as well as good...

It is Germany's first quantum computer, and it is capable of bending the laws of physics and computing...

The United States and several other nations have pledged to cut carbon emissions faster, putting pressure on other...

Since 2005, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has been one of the most stable and enduring of political forces,...

The European Medicines Agency did not name the company it expects to file the application. However, EU leaders...

The Netherlands is going into a partial lockdown for at least four weeks. Meanwhile, Italy has imposed new...

The Franco-German proposal for a COVID-19 recovery fund is not quite the “Hamiltonian moment” that some have claimed....

Today, we face the global outbreak of a disease that has the potential to catalyze what the historian...

No change in Germany: Angela Merkel will stay on as chancellor. Germans like constancy. However, Merkel has some major tasks to fulfil during her fourth term in office

The collapse of Germany’s coalition talks is the latest shock to hit Europe. No one saw it coming. Of course the blow is of a different nature from the banking crisis, the war in Ukraine, the refugee crisis, Brexit, Trump, Poland and Hungary’s democratic backsliding, or Catalan secessionism. Germany’s politics look upended but the fundamentals are still in place: the postwar democratic set-up is hardly under threat

The crisis in Catalonia and the resilience of European populists have made a well-functioning Franco-German partnership more important than ever. But if the European project is going to have any chance of surviving, the gap between German prudence and French audacity will have to be bridged.