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Angela Merkel: EU Needs More Power to Coordinate Response to Pandemic
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday (21 April) that the European Union needs more power to coordinate the bloc's response to health crises like the coronavirus pandemic, and did not rule out a treaty change to secure them.
Germany’s Christian Democrats Back Armin Laschet for Chancellor Candidate
The leadership of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has backed its head Armin Laschet as the conservative bloc's candidate for chancellor in the upcoming German federal elections, dpa reported.
Vucic: "Kosovo deal is crucial"
Vucic talked with the Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU faction in the German parliament, Johann Wadephul and the group's foreign affairs adviser Hans-Joachim Falenski about bilateral relationship, Serbia's road to EU and the situation in the region.
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Merkel, Facing Long Night, says German Coalition Talks Can Work
Talks on forming a new German coalition government "can work", Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday ahead of a long night of negotiations at which she must forge a three-way alliance or risk seeing her 12-year stint in power come to an end, reported Reuters.
Snap vote: German Lawmakers to Vote on Same-Sex Marriage
German lawmakers will decide Friday whether to legalize same-sex marriage, according to CNN affiliate NTV. The snap vote comes after Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that she would like to see parliament move towards a "vote of conscience" on the issue.
The sealing off of the Balkan route benefited Germany, says German Chancellor Merkel
Despite the negative election results on ‘Super Sunday’ in 3 major German provinces by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, the CDU and the rise of the anti-immigrant right party AFD, the Chancellor’s spokesperson, Steffen Seibert said Monday the open immigration policy adopted by the German government would continue.
German Court Rules Against Sending Back Refugees to Bulgaria
A German court has ruled against deportation of refugees to Bulgaria if they had been registered there first upon entering the European Union because Bulgaria wasn't a safe country of origin.
Germany's Merkel says refugees must return home once war over
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Jan. 30 tried to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees, insisting that asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.
Schaeuble’s temporary Grexit is still considered by Merkel’s CDU
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) ruling party of Germany is critical of Greece again reports Deutsche Welle. German general secretary of CDU’s financial council Wolfgang Steiger lashed out against Athens stating that the government is not sticking to the time chart of reforms.
Russia's Gazprom gas output seen at all-time low in 2015
Russia's Economy Ministry said on July 28 it expected gas production at Gazprom to decline to 414 billion cubic metres (bcm) this year, an all-time low, due to sluggish demand and a decline in upstream investments.