German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced she will step down in 2021, following recent election setbacks. She told a news…
Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term as Germany chancellor while nationalists have made a historic breakthrough in…
Polls have opened in Germany with Chancellor Angela Merkel vying for a third term in charge of Europe's most powerful…
President Barack Obama has used his public speech in Berlin to propose cuts of one-third in American and Russian nuclear…
EU leaders at Brussels summit say they are committed to tackling tax evasion and will push for global action to…
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich says his country will not allow Bulgaria or Romania to join the EU's passport-free Schengen…
German Education Minister Annette Schavan has resigned after Heinrich Heine University stripped her of her doctorate for plagiarism. Duesseldorf's Heinrich…
University of Duesseldorf in Germany has voted to strip Education Minister Annette Schavan of her doctorate after an investigation into…
University of Duesseldorf is to investigate allegations that German Education Minister Annette Schavan plagiarized parts of her doctoral thesis in…
Voters in the German state of Lower Saxony are going to the polls in a regional election seen as a…
European Union leaders have agreed on a roadmap for eurozone integration beyond the deal on centralized banking supervision, German Chancellor…
EU budget summit held in Brussels has ended without agreement on the 27-strong union's next seven-year budget. Another meeting will…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she doubts an agreement can be reached on the European Union's 2014-2020 budget at the…
EU leaders are to begin talks on the bloc’s 2014-2020 budget, with many of them calling for cuts in line…
European Union leaders have agreed to set up a single eurozone banking supervisor - a major step towards a banking…
Germany has called on countries using the euro to take decisive steps to bring about closer fiscal integration. Berlin wants…
Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged Germany's continuing support to Greece, during her first visit to Athens since the eurozone crisis…
France President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are marking the 50th anniversary of an historic speech seen as…
Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is expected to repeat his plea for more time to implement reforms when he meets…
EU leaders at Brussels summit have agreed to use the eurozone's bailout fund to support struggling banks directly, without adding…
EU leaders at Brussels summit are examining how to ease the eurozone debt crisis amid competing visions about how to…
German Development Minister Dirk Niebel who sent home a big Afghan carpet free of charge aboard an intelligence service plane…
George Soros warns European leaders they have a "three-month window" to save the euro. The billionaire investor said he believed…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has had telephone contact with Greece’s President Karolos Papoulias, amid continuing speculation that his country may…
France’s President Francois Hollande has arrived in Berlin for key talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, after his plane was…