Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday received
the first dose of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, more than two weeks after
German authorities recommended use of the jab only for people aged 60 and over.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday defended Germanyâs "emergency brake" measures on Friday, saying that unified nationwide restrictions were needed as soon as possible to slow down the pandemic.
Germany's ruling conservatives are locked in
a bitter dispute over who they want to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor
when Germany goes to the polls in September.
The German government agreed Tuesday on controversial changes to a national infections control law, handing Berlin more power to impose tougher measures such as night-time curfews to halt the raging coronavirus pandemic.
The Green party are about to do something theyâve never done before. On April 19th, they are going to announce their first ever candidate for Chancellor of Germany. Who are the candidates and what are their strengths and weaknesses?
The German government is expected to agree Tuesday on controversial changes to a national infections control law which would hand Berlin more centralised power to impose sweeping measures to curb the raging coronavirus pandemic.
Germany may be facing a much longer shutdown, as new federal measures could last until the end of May or middle of June, reported Berlinâs Tagesspiegel on Monday.
An update to the disease control law is expected to be rushed through the German Bundestag next week. According to several newspaper reports, it will give the central government the power to enforce tougher lockdown rules including night-time curfews.
Chancellor Angela Merkel is in favour of tightening virus restrictions in Germany for a short period to stem rising case numbers, her spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Germany's 16 states and the federal government have been bickering over coronavirus restrictions for weeks. And now there's a talk of a 'bridge lockdown'. Here's the latest.
Just as a deadly third wave of Covid-19 hits Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is embroiled in an untimely battle with some state leaders over how to tackle the pandemic. Aaron Burnett looks at who really holds the power in the fight to return to normal life in Germany.
The leader of Angela Merkel's CDU party on Monday pushed back against the chancellor's criticism that some of Germany's
16 states are straying from agreed Covid-19 measures, insisting they are taking the pandemic seriously.
Chancellor Angela Merkelâs statement to the press on Wednesday that she was cancelling the Easter shutdown resolved some questions, but left others wide open. Here's what we know, and what we still donât.
On a dramatic day in German politics, Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted a plan for a strict Easter virus shutdown was a "mistake" after agreeing with regional leaders to reverse the measure. The shock U-turn has led to members of the opposition calling for a vote of confidence in the veteran leader.
Chancellor Merkel has decided to tear up the plan for a hard lockdown over Easter after it came in for huge criticism from within her own party, several German media outlets are reporting.
After the federal government and states decided on a hard lockdown over Easter the reactions stretched from media organisations calling it "a scandal" to doctors expressing relief.
One year after the first measures were put in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus, almost two-thirds of Germans are dissatisfied with Germanyâs crisis management.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that
she was ready to be vaccinated with AstraZeneca's coronavirus jab if offered
when it is her turn to be inoculated.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party on Monday admitted it must do better in its pandemic management after suffering heavy losses in two regional polls, six months before a general election.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was in crisis mode Monday after suffering heavy losses in two regional polls, seen as a rebuke of its pandemic management six months before a general election.
Germans headed to the polls in two key regional elections Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives bracing for a drubbing on anger over a corruption scandal and a series of pandemic setbacks.
Corruption allegations and a series of pandemic setbacks have plunged German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives into turmoil, just days before two regional polls kick off a key election year.
The German Chancellor warned on Wednesday that people would have to show patience until the summer before they could expect âa clear improvementâ in their lives.
Baden-WĂźrttemberg, one of Germany's prosperous car regions, will go to the polls on Sunday - and the result is set to give a flavour of what might come in the country's national elections.
