Merkel

Merkel looks forward to detailed talks with Trump: Gov't spokesman

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is looking forward to an elaborate exchange of views on a variety of issues with U.S. President Donald Trump when they meet in Washington on March 14, Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said on March 13.

Seibert said that the two leaders will meet for more than 2-1/2 hours and will then continue their deliberations at a working lunch after that.

Merkel: The DM would have a different value than the Euro

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a peculiar statement during the Munich Security Meeting. She said that the ECB’s monetary policy regarding the Euro is not based on Germany but rather it is adjusted on countries like Portugal, Slovenia or Slovakia, arguing that if the DM was still in circulation it would have a different value that what the Euro has now.

Angela Merkel reading Playboy to better understand Donald Trump (video)

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:

Merkel vows to toughen anti-terrorist laws

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government would toughen its anti-terrorist law in the wake of the recent attack in a Berlin Christmas market by Tunisian terrorist Anis Amri that resulted in 12 deaths and 49 injured civilians. Speaking only a few hours after the Italian police killed the 24-year-old terrorist in Italy, Ms.

Merkel on Berlin terror attack: We will punish the culprit harshly

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to punish the perpetrators of the terrorist truck attack in Berlin, which led to the death of 12 civilians and the injury of 48 other, during a televised address to the German public, Tuesday. “Millions of people wonder how we can live with what happened in the Christmas market? A murderer killed so many people in such a happy place?

Merkel: No change in refugee policy in wake of attack

Although "there is much still not known with sufficient certainty," Monday's attack in Berlin "must be assumed to have been a terrorist attack."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this on Tuesday in her first public address since a driver - reportedly a Pakistani refugee - deliberately drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people.

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