Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet on Wednesday approved a stimulus package aimed at helping Europe's biggest economy and the world's top exporter avoid the worst effects of a sharp global slowdown.
Chancellor Angela Merkel gave details on Tuesday of measures aimed at boosting slowing growth in Germany, calling the package a "bridge" for Europe's biggest economy until it picks up again in 2010.
Chancellor Angela Merkel called Thursday for urgent coordinated action to ease the impact of the financial crisis on the mainstream economy, but said new jobless data gave a glimmer of hope.
German chancellor Angela Merkel warned of tough times ahead for the world's third largest economy due to the global financial crisis, and called for a comprehensive overhaul and more oversight of the financial system.
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that relations were "good," indicating the two sides had patched up a row over the Dalai Lama.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to China this week in a visit marking a normalization of ties after her meeting with the Dalai Lama last year led to frosty diplomatic relations.
<b>Germany has <a href="/money/20081013-14863.html" target="_blank">coughed up âŹ480 billion</a> for a bank rescue package that is grudgingly accepted as a lesser evil than impending global financial chaos by newspaper editorials in The Localâs media roundup.</b>
Chancellor Angela Merkel announced an unprecedented âŹ480-billion ($643-billion) rescue package for Germanyâs banks on Monday, as part of coordinated international effort to stem the global financial crisis.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that Germany would press ahead with a raft a measures to support the country's banking sector in order to send "an important signal" to the markets.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Friday for a framework of international market rules â in place of national regulations â to prevent financial crises like the one now threatening the world economy.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that the long-term consequences of the global financial crisis were uncertain but that she was confident the "strong" German economy would survive.
The Bavarian sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a drubbing in a state election Sunday that will cost the Christian Social Union its decades-old absolute majority.
Bavarians went to the polls in state elections Sunday that could see the conservatives lose their decades-old absolute majority and spell trouble for German Chancellor Angela Merkel at national level.
For decades Bavaria has been the party and the party has been Bavaria, as much a part of the proud southern German stateâs identity as lederhosen, beer, BMW and football team Bayern Munich.
Germany on Monday said the country would not participate in the US governmentâs $700-billion bailout package for troubled banks, as Chancellor Angela Merkel renewed her call for greater regulation of the financial sector.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has slammed US and British moves to bail out the troubled financial sector as undermining efforts to instill more transparency.
The Social Democratic candidate for chancellor next year, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has called on his party to end its divisive debate on the controversial reform package known as Agenda 2010.
Forbes magazine recently proclaimed Angela Merkel to be the most powerful woman in the world. <b>Roger Boyes</b>, the Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, explains why he finds it a strange choice.
Kurt Beck on Tuesday said he made a âconscious decisionâ to resign as head of the Social Democrats over the weekend after he felt he could no longer lead the party due to a lack of trust within the SPD.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday complained about the high number of English words that have been incorporated into the German language during a visit the Goethe Institute in Munich.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier embarked on a tough 12-month battle on Monday, fronting a demoralized and divided Social Democratic Party to challenge Angela Merkel for the chancellorship in elections next year.
Germany's Social Democrats have picked Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to take on Angela Merkel in next year's election. AFP's Deborah Cole profiles the man who would be chancellor.
