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German Chancellor and candidate of the Christian Democratic Union for the upcoming election Angela Merkel delivers a speech in Dortmund. (Photo: AP)

German reckoning

It poses a challenge, though, for Angela Merkel, whose status as chancellor remains unchallenged, but who is now obliged...

28 Sept 2017 6:29 AM IST

Greenpeace activists demonstrate with a giant Earth balloon and a portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Friday. (Photo: AFP)

Can't wait longer for coalition: Merkel

Chancellor seeks quick end to last stretch of negotiations.

27 Jan 2018 7:21 AM IST

Although Merkel stunned many observers abroad by winning re-election despite her controversial open-border stance, her struggle to form a viable coalition has revived speculation. (Photo: AFP)

Angela Merkel risks leading weak coalition of losers' for Germany:...

Merkel, often called world's most powerful woman, will embark on 4th term with diminished influence and little vision...

13 Jan 2018 4:15 PM IST

German Chancellor and candidate of the Christian Democratic Union for the upcoming election Angela Merkel delivers a speech in Dortmund. (Photo: AP)

Angela Merkel elected as German Chancellor for fourth time

Lawmakers voted 364-315 on Wednesday to re-elect Merkel, who ran unopposed. There were nine abstentions.

14 March 2018 2:52 PM IST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel address the media during a joint news conference with the Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: AP)

Angela Merkel's conservatives win election in center-left rivals'...

Media showed Merkel's Christian Democratic Union beating the Social Democrats by 33 percent or more to around 31...

15 May 2017 9:55 AM IST

Protestors protest on Mondat might in Bucharest, a day after the Romanian government repealed an emergency decree that would have turned a blind eye toward political corruption. (Photo: AFP)

Romanians stage protests against left-wing government, corruption

The demonstrators want the withdrawal of proposed legislation that would overhaul Romania's justice system.

11 Dec 2017 3:42 PM IST