Steffen Seibert

An event Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is planning to hold in Germany has drawn criticism from a wide array of German politicians, according to German media reports on Wednesday.

Steffen Seibert, spokesman of the German Ministry of Finance, stated that a productive solution on the Greek negotiation is possible.

As he said, the negotiations this Friday is a good opportunity for all sides to find a constructive way to move ahead and send an optimistic message.

Germany is committed to making a success of Greece's bailout program, a spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday, when asked if Greece leaving the eurozone was an option.

Donald Trump’s decision to ban immigration from a string of Muslim-majority nations has sparked fury and anguish around the world as refugees and migrants were prevented from boarding flights to the US.

U.S. President Donald Trump's order to restrict people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States sparked reaction and anger on Jan. 29 after immigrants and refugees were kept off flights and left stranded at airports. 

According to a Bloomberg piece, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is poring over archives of videos with interviews of Donald Trump, including Playboy magazines, desperately seeking ways to better understand and possibly influence the newly elected US President before the two meet. The atricle cites two sources familiar with her preparations. From the Bloomberg:

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for a worldwide effort to counter the threat of Russian cyber warfare and urged the United States to "be great again" by demonstrating leadership on issues such as global security. 

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has requested that the chargé d'affaires in the Turkish embassy be summoned to the ministry for discussions about Turkey's arrests of opposition lawmakers, the German Foreign Ministry has said. 

Berlin rejected calls from Greek Minister Alexis Tsipras during the International Fair in Thessaloniki, that Germany should pay compensations for Nazi atrocities to Greece.

A batch of Greek economic reforms must be reviewed by euro zone finance ministers before any additional debt relief can be decided on, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Monday.

Seibert said there was a clear process for determining further steps, including a review of the program of austerity measures, and that process was still under way.