Europe

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Friday she will be paying a farewell official visit to Greece on October 28-29, coinciding with the national holiday of Oxi Day. The visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Athens on October 28...

Angela Merkel will make her final official visit as German Chancellor to Greece on October 29. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reportedly invited the outgoing Chancellor to visit the Greek capital during an EU Summit meeting in Slovenia earlier this...

Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during her last official trip to Turkey on Saturday. Merkel, who has lead Germany for the past 16 years, enjoyed a friendly relationship with Turkey, despite periods of...

Millions of voters in Germany head to the polls on Sunday to elect the new chancellor who will usher the post-Merkel era. Opinion polls show the race for the chancellery headed for a photo finish, with Merkel’s CDU-CSU conservative alliance...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is leaving office after 16 years, receiving favorable  assessment internationally, the same has not been forthcoming from Greece. According to the Pew Research Center, the departing German Chancellor has been rated positively in almost all of the...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made accusations that Greece was pushing back refugees at sea in a call with Germany's Angela Merkel.

Responding to Thursday's signing of a maritime agreement between Greece and Egypt delineating the EEZ's of each nation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reported to have told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that his nation would again recommence drilling...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine after meeting with a doctor on Friday who has since tested positive for the virus, her spokesman said. Merkel was told about the contact after a press conference on Sunday in which she...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a warning that the "Libyan chaos" could  extend to the entire Mediterranean Sea during his Friday meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Istanbul. ''The chaos that prevails in Libya is likely to have consequences...

  Germany's Christian Democratic Union on Friday elected Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel in the conservative party leadership. Kramp-Karrenbauer, 56, former interior minister and governor of Saarland, won with a slight majority of 51.7 percent, with 517...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has informed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party that she will not seek re-election as its chairwoman in December, it is being reported. Her decision comes after her party sustained heavy losses in regional elections that...

CSU Leader Horst Seehofer with Angela Merkel The Christian Social Union, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative allies, lost their absolute majority in Bavaria's state parliamentary elections on Sunday, winning 35.5 percent of the vote, down from 47.7 percent five years ago, exit polls...

Angela Merkel told the media on Monday that talks with Greece on re-admitting asylum-seekers from Germany's borders were well underway. In comments reported by the Associated Press, the German Chancellor said direct talks with Greek premier Alexis Tsipras were not...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday said she thought an end to the long-running name dispute between FYROM and Greece was in sight. During an inaugural visit by FYROM premier Zoran Zaev to Berlin, Merkel said: "I'm very happy and relieved...

A nationalist, anti-immigrant party has won seats in three German regional elections, a result seen as a major rebuke to Chancellor Angela Merkel's open immigration policy. The 3-year-old Alternative for Deutschland party, or AfD, won representation in the states of...