News Source: The Local
| about 1 month ago
Obama said he looked "forward to continued close cooperation with Chancellor Merkel to address our common challenges in the years ahead," a White House statement said. "The United States and Germany are close allies, and partner together around the...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 month ago
AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski) German Chancellor Angela Merkel, front, leads a party executive meeting of her Christian Democrats, CDU, in Berlin, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009, a day after the German general elections. Merkel, 55, who was voted back into...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to press ahead quickly with forming a new center-right German government following her election victory. Sunday's election gave the conservative Merkel a second four-year term. It allows her to dump her "grand...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
43 UK time, Monday, 28 September 2009 It is strange in the aftermath of a campaign, when a candidate has been examined and dissected, that the basic questions are still being asked on the day after. But with victory secure and with a new coalition...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
Frankfurt's DAX 30 climbed 0.49 percent to 5,608.75 points and in Paris the CAC 40 shed 0.29 percent to 3,728.47 nearing the half-way mark. The DJ Euro Stoxx 50 index of top eurozone shares retreated 0.18 percent to 2,826.74 points. Merkel set to...
News Source: Open Democracy
| about 1 month ago
She secured a mandate to form a new coalition with the pro-business Liberal Democrats (FDP, 14.6 percent), which will succeed a "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats (SPD). Focusing on economic reform, tax cuts and a return to nuclear power,...