BERLIN — Throughout Angela Merkel’s rise to power and tenure as German chancellor, she has kept a tight lid on her personal life to an extent hard to conjure in the modern social media age. But every ... Read more
BERLIN — Angela Merkel is famous for slowly weighing every possible risk before making a decision. That is exactly what the chancellor is doing now as she ponders attending the all-German Champions League ... Read more
MUNICH — The struggling junior partner in Germany’s coalition government tried over the weekend to overcome its image as a bickering party lacking in leadership and solid policies at a party ... Read more
BERLIN — Even as the United States economy displays unanticipated resilience, with a healthy jobs report released on Friday, the outlook for Europe’s economy grows ever dimmer. As it does, the ... Read more
BRUSSELS — Unemployment has surpassed Great Depression-era levels in Southern Europe. Recession is drifting to the once resilient economies of the north. Even some onetime hawks on government spending say ... Read more
BERLIN — In a rare political setback for the world’s most powerful woman, Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday found herself forced to give in to a rebellious bloc in her own party who insisted that ... Read more
BERLIN — David Cameron, the British prime minister, arrived here on Friday for what a German official called a “not purely routine” weekend visit that will include talks with Chancellor Angela ... Read more
MOSCOW – The federal Justice Ministry opened a legal case on Tuesday against Russia’s only independent election monitoring organization, charging that the group, Golos, and its executive director ... Read more
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday publicly expressed her government’s disapproval of the way nongovernmental organizations are treated by the Kremlin, and she did so in the presence of ... Read more
BERLIN — President Vladimir V. Putin’s visit to Hanover to open Germany’s leading industrial trade fair, this year featuring Russia, was intended as a signal of strong relations between the two ... Read more