Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday in Tirana that the EU has no timetable for Albania to start membership talks, which she said depends on the pace of reforms.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to arrive in Belgrade late in the afternoon on Wednesday.

Today and tomorrow, she will hold talks with top Serbian officials.

Love her or hate her… there’s lots to say about the German chancellor even when its not about politics.

Photos of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel entering the Chancellery have been causing a bit of a stir over the internet. Merkel’s hair looked disheveled and she appeared to be extremely fatigued and tired.  Last night’s Greek referendum results could have had something to do with her looks.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel had told her personal assistant that Greece’s debts would still be unsustainable under the terms of the 2011 bailout agreement unless it received more generous assistance from wealthier state. Wikileaks reports that the National Security Agency had intercepted her communications:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has kept up with tradition and enjoyed Turkish döner as the eurozone grappled with the deepening Greece crisis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday reiterated that there was still an open channel of communication between creditors and capital control-shocked Greece

She spoke in Berlin during a during a joint press conference with the visiting PM of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel played down prospects of a breakthrough with Greece in the coming days, but said she stood ready to restart talks with the government in Athens after a planned referendum on Sunday.

Fashion designer Rick Owens has in the past refered to German model Jera as his muse, but his muse upstaged all his designs on the runway this week despite the fact that designs were edgy with snout-like helmets and radical cloth.

Eurozone leaders meeting in Brussels later on Monday are unlikely to be able to take a formal decision on whether to provide aid to Greece but there is still time this week to finalise an agreement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.