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.
Bavarian regional leader Markus Söder on Sunday said he would be open to standing as the German conservative bloc's
chancellor candidate in September elections, putting an end to months of flirting with a run at Berlin.
With less than six months to go until a general election and their poll ratings plummeting, Angela Merkel's conservatives are meeting for crunch talks Sunday as pressure builds to pick their chancellor candidate.
Germany will seek a deal with European
partners to close ski slopes through to early January due to coronavirus, setting it on a collision course with resort operators and Austria ahead of
the crucial Christmas holiday season.
Does life start at 66? Thanks to the coronavirus crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is more in demand than ever, despite being almost at the end of her premiership. In the meantime, the struggle for her succession is well underway.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Bavaria and the tour given by state premier Söder have fueled speculation she was tacitly endorsing him as her potential successor.
When Germany loosens its restrictions on public life, it’s “highly likely” that a requirement to wear a mask would follow, said Bavaria’s state premier Markus Söder.
Traffic slowed to a crawl at a key crossing on the Bavarian-Austrian border on Monday, as Germany introduced new controls to combat the spread of the new coronavirus.
The race to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor became more unpredictable than ever after her protegee Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer threw in the towel as leader of the centre-right party.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative allies on Wednesday took aim at her backing for a new eurozone budget, German media reported, opening up another front in their attack against her.
At the beginning of 2018 Bavaria will have a new Minister-President after incumbent Horst Seehfoer agreed to step aside. The man set to replace him comes across as a gruff populist, but is there more to him than meets the eye?
Conservative leaders in Germany insisted on linking the terror attacks in Paris on Friday night to the country's own refugee crisis, with calls emerging on Saturday for a crackdown at German borders.
UPDATE: Speaking to MPs from his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on Tuesday, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said that Greece will stay in the eurozone even if the Greek public vote 'no' on July 5th.
Starting on Tuesday, people and businesses in Bavaria will be able to use web addresses with the domain .bayern, ending the Free State's online subjection to the Federal Republic of Germany.
