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President Obama paid tribute Wednesday to those who have lost their lives in the nation's wars as well as to the men and women who currently serve. "There's no tribute, no commemoration, no praise that can truly match the magnitude of your service and...
Tags: Angela Merkel, Paris, world war, Nicolas Sarkozy, Barack Obama, French, chancellor angela, Berlin Wall, president nicolas, unknown soldiers
Chancellor Angela Merkel's new centre-right government last week kept nuclear energy alive but stressed that would only be until renewable energies are fully viable...A total of 17 reactors had faced closure in the coming decade but can now expect a new...
Tags: Angela Merkel, chancellor angela, Mrs. Merkel, Germany
Twenty years on, formerly communist states are stuck in old ways. Forbes Twenty years on, a large swath of the world remains locked behind the Iron Curtain...From the Caucasus to the 'stans of Central Asia, wherever Moscow's corrupting and brutish influence...
Tags: Berlin Wall, Eastern Europe, Angela Merkel, Western Europe, wall memories, chancellor angela, Mikhail Gorbachev
It�s a tremendous honour for Chancellor Angela Merkel to address the US Congress this week, considering she�ll be the first German leader to do so since Konrad Adenauer in 1957. But the invitation from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi undoubtedly comes...
Tags: Angela Merkel, Mrs Merkel, Barack Obama, US Congress, Mr Obama, climate change, chancellor angela, global warming, Iran, joint meeting
She has already emerged from recession, well ahead of Britain, and in their recent elections Germans voted for a decisive break with the past, backing in record numbers the Free Democrats, the nearest thing that country has seen to a true Thatcherite...
Tags: Germany, Christian Democrats, Guido Westerwelle, Angela Merkel, foreign minister, chancellor angela, gay foreign
Under plans for the next four years, finalised on Friday by Merkel's conservatives and her new pro-business partners, the tax burden on families and workers will be eased by some �24 billion. Merkel believes the tax breaks will speed up Germany's recovery...
Tags: Angela Merkel, Germany, Berlin Merkel, chancellor angela
It is all geared to creating jobs," Chancellor Angela Merkel said, calling the coalition pact, finalised after three weeks of tough negotiations in the early hours of Saturday, Germany's "answer to the crisis." "We have agreed a coalition programme showing...
Tags: Angela Merkel, Mrs. Merkel, Merkel Picks Team, free democratic, chancellor angela, Germany, coalition agreement, coalition deal, tax cuts, Conservatives and Free Democrats
The precise make-up of the new German government will become known in the coming days, following negotiations between Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats and the pro-business Free Democrats. A copy of the parties' new common programme,...
Tags: Angela Merkel, Ms Merkel, Merkel Seals Cabinet, chancellor angela, Germany, business free, coalition agreement, finance ministers
She criticised the last German government for failing to take up the issue before the European Union extended the current summer time regulations for all 27 members, but said the FDP would still press the matter since it was clear the time change had...
Tags: Angela Merkel, chancellor angela, FDP
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's prospective new coalition partners insisted Monday that they stand by their plan for tax cuts, a key campaign call, amid increasing doubts over whether it is affordable. Merkel, a conservative, won a center-right majority...
Tags: Angela Merkel, chancellor angela, Mrs. Merkel, Germany