Politics of Germany

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos will travel to Berlin on Wednesday, his office confirmed on Tuesday.

Venizelos has scheduled meetings with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on the afternoon of his arrival and on the following day with Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos will travel to Berlin on Wednesday for two days of talks, it was announced on Friday.

According to sources, the PASOK leader will meet German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Sigmar Gabriel.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated Klaus Iohannis for his win in the presidential elections of last week, according to a release published, on Tuesday, on the website of the German government.

BELGRADE - German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, who is also minister of economy and energy, will pay a one-day visit to Belgrade in mid-November, the Danas daily reported on Friday.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic spoke to Gabriel during a working visit to Berlin in late August.

As a part of group of journalists and academics, I have spent the past week in Germany as a guest of the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, which has close ties to the Free Democrat Party.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet with German Minister of Food and Agriculture Christian Schmidt in Belgrade on Monday.

Lawmakers in France, the world's most nuclear-dependent country, on Oct. 10 voted to cut reliance on the energy source from more than 75 percent to 50 percent within a decade.

Former chancellor criticizes Merkel in new book

BERLIN -- Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has made a series of derogatory remarks about Angela Merkel in his new book, due to be published soon.

He described the current chancellor as an incompetent politician who could not even eat properly with a knife and fork.

Following a morning decline in line with most other European bourses, the Greek market continued to head south on Tuesday as it became clear that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Chancellor Angela Merkel were not going to announce any far-reaching statements after their meeting in Berlin. As a result, the benchmark fell to its lowest point of the last 25 sessions.

Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova will be awarded an Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by German ambassador to Bulgaria Detlef Lingemann.

Fandakova will be awarded for her longtime contribution to the development of the Bulgarian-German relations.