Angela Merkel

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on March 23 for talks expected to focus on Greece?s looming cash crunch even as bilateral tensions remain high.

Tsipras is expected to use the meeting, proposed by Merkel on Monday, to seek a political solution to the current deadlock that would allow the release of much-needed funding.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel invited Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to Berlin this month, an offer made during a same-day telephone call between the two on Monday.

During their telephone conversation, the meeting in the German chancellory was fixed for March 23.

The Greek PM responded positively to the invitation.

"Tens of thousands of Russian troops are in Ukraine"

BERLIN -- Petro Poroshenko, who is in Berlin for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has said that the Minsk agreement is "not working."

By Dalia Fahmy & Elisabeth Behrmann

Berlin cabdriver Jens Mueller says he's had it with the Greek government and he doesn't want Germany to send any more of his tax money to be squandered in Athens.

Socialist PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos on Friday announced he was stepping down from the party's leadership, with a party congress announced for mid May.

On Tuesday the German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to meet with the President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi.

According to German Chancellor’s representative Steffen Seibert, the meeting will be held in Berlin where issues concerning Eurozone will be discussed.

Greece has to present detailed proposals on how it wants to complete its current bailout program and should not expect special treatment from its euro zone partners, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel was quoted on Friday as saying.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invitation to partake in the Russian military parade in Moscow on May 9th, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory against Nazi Germany.

However, the chancellor will visit Moscow the day after in order to pay her respects with a wreath over the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

By Madeline Chambers

Germany dismissed Greek demands to pay World War Two reparations after leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused Berlin of using legal tricks to avoid paying compensation for the Nazi occupation of his country.

Steffen Seibert, the spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, stated today in a press conference that Germany will not pay Greece World War II reparations, following Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' statements yesterday on the same issue.