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'Yes we can' to 'Yes we scan', Obama returns to Berlin
... BERLIN (Reuters) - Cheered like a rockstar when he passed through Berlin five years ago on his way to the White House, Barack Obama faces a cooler reception and tough questions about U.S. spying methods when he returns next week for talks with Angela Merkel and a speech at the Brandenburg Gate... Read more »
Defense Minister May Become a Liability for Merkel
BERLIN — This is not going to be an easy week for Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her trusted and long-time friend, Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière is fighting for his political survival because of a deepening scandal over Germany’s development of surveillance drones. The controversy is ... Read more »
Obama to Speak at Brandenburg Gate During Berlin Visit
Apparently Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany does not find the idea “odd” any longer: At her invitation, President Obama will finally get his chance to speak at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate this month. The White House announced on Wednesday morning that Mr. Obama would deliver an ... Read more »
Obama’s chance to rekindle an affair
But he was thwarted by Angela Merkel, the cautious German chancellor. She didn’t want to offend President George W Bush, and decided the venue should be reserved for heads of state or government. So Mr Obama had to make his speech down the road at the Victory Column – a rather ... Read more »
Cyber-snooping backlash builds in Berlin before Obama's JFK trip
BERLIN | Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:04pm BST BERLIN (Reuters) - German outrage over a secret U.S. Internet spying programme is building before a visit by Barack Obama next week, with senior members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's government demanding a full explanation from the president when he ... Read more »
German court says won't be swayed by ECB bond-buying success
Speaking at an industry conference in Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government would make the case in Karlsruhe that the ECB was acting appropriately to stabilise the euro. She also stressed the importance of the currency bloc's permanent rescue mechanism, on which the court ... Read more »
UK says eavesdropping is legal, defends U.S. spy links
" President Barack Obama is due to visit Germany later this month and both the SPD and the opposition Greens have urged Chancellor Angela Merkel to raise the issue with him. "This affair looks like it will be one of the biggest scandals in data sharing ... Merkel cannot just look ... Read more »
Striking workers face off with police in Turkish capital
Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was "appalled, like many others" shocked at Turkey's tough response to the protests. "I would like to see those who ... have a different opinion and a different idea of society having some space in a Turkey that moves into the 21st century," she told the ... Read more »
Yes, you can make money in Europe. Here's how. The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blogTerm Sheet
" If, as we strongly anticipate, Angela Merkel is re-elected this fall and if, as we strongly anticipate, the German court gives the go-ahead for the OMT, Germany should continue very much in the ascendant. France: We are bearish on France, where President Hollande appears decidedly ... Read more »
Hungary next to fear floods from surging Danube
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Reiner Haseloff, right, premier of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, speak with volunteers about building a sandbag barrier near Lake Goitzsche in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany, on June 6. Residents and their pets take refuge from the flooding in a ... Read more »
Cruise-liner carrying 120 British pensioners marooned by floods in Austria as authorities consider e...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel inspects a wall of sandbags in Bitterfeld, Germany, (right) as volunteers and soldiers try to shore up defences (left) Soldiers take a break after stacking sandbags to strengthen a dam on the city outskirts against the rising Mulde river in ... Read more »
Europe rethinks its pursuit of austerity
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly insisted that there is no alternative to cost-cutting. As Europe's most powerful leader, she sets the agenda. Critics of single-minded austerity acknowledge that overspending had become a problem in some European nations and that decisive ... Read more »
Harper heads to G8 summit and 'yarnbombers'
" Only Angela Merkel, elected chancellor of Germany in late 2005 a few months before Harper became prime minister in 2006, is more senior at that "small table. " In fact, Merkel and Harper, both leaders of conservative governments, have found themselves to be allies for most of ... Read more »
Vicki Abelson: Valerie Harper ~ The Will And Grace
Photo: Getty Who: Angela Merkel (57) Why: The current Chancellor of Germany has epitomized a female in a position of leadership. <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2066367_2066369_2066098,00.html #ixzz1bTuNodMU " ... Read more »
Airbus A350 takes off for the first time
Ahead of the G8 summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Europe has lost competitiveness and needs to focus on jobs for young people. The latest wide body jet from Airbus, the A350 XWB, took its maiden flight in France as it aims to compete with Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. Here's what ... Read more »
Made in Italy
All the while, as rightwing and leftwing populisms grow, the European Union is being transformed, in many Italian minds, from a benign and generous zio (uncle) into a malignant matrigna (stepmother) wearing an Angela Merkel mask. Yet whatever its failings, Italy is a nation that arguably ... Read more »
Putin announces divorce: 'We have different lives'
A topless protester shouts at Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, during their visit to the Hanover Industrial Fair in central Germany on April 8, 2013. Human rights groups say civil liberties and democratic freedoms have suffered during Putin's rule. Putin addresses the ... Read more »
Berlin’s Network Effect Will Make It A Global Startup Center
German Chancellor Angela Merkel — a chemical physicist by training – recently visited ResearchGate in Berlin to speak with the team, a sign of the company’s growing presence in Germany. While we’ve become accustomed to politicians dropping in on companies in the U.S., such visits are ... Read more »
Hicks: Steve Perry has cancer surgery
2008: President George W. Bush, during a visit to Germany, raised the possibility of a military strike to thwart Tehran's presumed nuclear weapons ambitions; Chancellor Angela Merkel joined Bush in urging further sanctions against Iran if it failed to suspend its nuclear enrichment ... Read more »
Germany: ‘The non-voters’ choice’ Presseurop.eu: European news, cartoons and press reviews
The newspaper adds that Angela Merkel’s Christian democrats have benefited significantly from this trend. In 2009, the Chancellor succeeded in winning the election with just 23.6 per cent of votes, thanks to the 28.2 per cent who did not cast their ballots for her adversary of the time... Read more »
