U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Berlin on Wednesday to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with whom he has forged a close transatlantic alliance during eight years in office that President-elect Donald Trump may now call into question.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday called for a closer cooperation between the European Commission, the European Union (EU) member states as well as companies in digitization.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she accepts her share of responsibility for her conservatives' drubbing in a Berlin state election when voters punished the party for her refugee-friendly migrant policy.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party was hit by a second electoral blow in two weeks in the Berlin state-city vote on Sunday, highlighting an increasing pressure on her open-door refugee policy.
A humiliating state election defeat for Angela Merkel in her own backyard on Sunday and another drubbing that looms in two weeks in Berlin are casting an ominous shadow over the Chancellor's hopes of winning - or even running - for a fourth term in 2017.
There is no reason to lift the European Union's sanctions against Russia as Moscow has not fulfilled all of its commitments under the Minsk peace plan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview published on Friday.
Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassure Germany on Wednesday over Britain's vote to leave the European Union, stressing her desire to deepen ties with neighboring countries in her first foreign visit as leader.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel here on Monday, hailing the China-Germany relations as "very matured."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit China from June 12 to 14 and co-chair a bilateral intergovernmental consultation with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said here on Monday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande marked the 100-year anniversary of the Battle of Verdun side-by-side on Sunday, laying a wreath at a cemetery in northeastern France for the 300,000 soldiers killed.
EU national leaders and U.S. president demonstrated on Monday willingness to continue coordinating closely with each other on major political and security issues.
Chancellor Angela Merkel raised a beer glass on Friday to help celebrate 500 years since the birth of Germany's oldest and most revered brewing tradition.
Migration and terrorism were the hot topics of discussion at the 18th Franco-German summit in Metz, France where French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met on Thursday to boost bilateral ties.
Germany's anti-migration party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), has recorded remarkable gains in Germany's regional elections on Sunday and is able to break into three more German state parliaments, according to exit polls.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday defended her open-door policy for migrants, rejecting any limit on the number of refugees allowed into her country despite divisions within her government.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday warned against national closing-border solutions and vowed to fight for the joint European Union plan to limit flows of refugees to Europe.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday blamed Turkey for recent allegations that Russian airstrikes in Syria had caused civilian deaths.