Angela Merkel

After a 40-minute meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday, North Macedonia voiced optimism about getting a start date set for EU accession talks, saying that Merkel had informed Prime Minister Zorav Zaev that the Bundestag would adopt a decision supporting a start date for talks in September.

"I can't believe we came in second," Alexis Tsipras told an associate on May 6, 2012, as he walked into SYRIZA's headquarters at Koumoundourou Square in downtown Athens. Seven years and 20 days later, on May 26, 2019, the party came full circle. Again, he couldn't believe they came second.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos joined Queen Elizabeth II, US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders attending the commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings on Southsea Common in Portsmouth on the south coast of England on Wednesday. About 300 veterans participated in the D-Day75 events in Portsmouth and in Normandy yesterday.

Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on June 2 that Germany's government will push on with its work, even after her junior coalition partner SPD plunged into crisis following the resignation of its party chief.    

The leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partner SPD said on June 2 she was resigning from her party chief job, raising the spectre that Germany's embattled government could collapse.   

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron disagreed on May 28 over who should be the next chief of the European Commission as EU leaders bargained over names for the bloc's top jobs in the next five years.   

Referring to the presence "once in a while" of his country's ships in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has reportedly said he hopes that war will not break out in the Eastern Mediterranean.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron disagreed on Tuesday over who should be the next chief of the European Commission as EU leaders began bargaining over names for the bloc's top jobs in the next five years.

Here's a brief look at the results of the European elections, country by country, arranged according to the number of seats they hold in the European Parliament:

GERMANY: Chancellor Angela Merkel's middle-of-the-road governing coalition lost significant ground , while the Greens surged and the far right made modest gains.

Parties dedicated to keep strong European Union will control two-thirds of seats in the new European Parliament, according to official forecasts released this morning.