Politics of Germany

It's got daring, bravado, good-looking middle aged ministers wearing trendy clothes (sans neckties), human suffering, money, arms deals, a man in a wheelchair with a simulated dominatrix in the form of German Chancellor Angela Merkel towering over him? How can you blame graphic designers for going crazy?

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told German Stern magazine that a debt that can't be paid off should lead to a cut. "We can call it many things," he added, nothing that the Greek as much as the German language were equally as verbally rich.

Ukrainian and European crisis, as well as current developments in Greece will dominate conversation between the US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has arrived at the White House.

A funny look at German Chancellor Angela Merkel's relationship with Greece as it has captured the attention of cartoonists from around the world.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Feb. 7 ruled out sending weapons to the Ukrainian government to fight pro-Russian separatists but said there was no guarantee that her latest peace initiative with French President Francois Hollande would work either. 

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will participate in the opening of the 51st Munich Security Conference on Friday. Chairman Wolfgang Ischinger, Germany's Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Jens Soltenberg are also going to be a part of the ceremony.

Vucic to attend Munich Security Conference

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will visit Munich on February 6 and 7 and attend the Munich Security Conference.

The German movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) held it first rally in Austria on Monday.

However PEGIDA failed to attract as many supporters as it usually does in its marches in Germany, the BBC reports.

Germany's PEGIDA "anti-Islamisation" movement held its first march in Austria on Feb. 2 but was dwarfed by a colourful counter-demonstration more than 10 times larger, according to police estimates.
 
A number of the PEGIDA supporters at the Vienna demonstration were skinheads, and some of them performed Nazi salutes, an AFP reporter at the scene said.
 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that Greece's new government was still working out plans on tackling its debt and declined to comment on an apparent softening of Athens' stance on a debt writedown and proposals for a new debt swap.