Angela Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Saturday to support the Balkan country's government ahead of the September 30 referendum on the name agreement with Greece. The change in the country's name to "North Macedonia",...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly expressed her country's support to Greece in the face of Turkish provocations in the Aegean. According to Greek government sources, Merkel told Tsipras during an EU meeting on Friday in Brussels that Germany's support "is...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday spoke on the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to sources cited by the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA), they discussed developments relating to the negotiations on the FYROM name issue and Turkish...

Greek hopes of debt relief were strengthened on Wednesday with the likely appointment of a center-left finance minister in Berlin, as German politicians finally agreed on a new grand-coalition government. After more than four months of deadlock, Chancellor Angela Merkel will remain...

European Union leaders met on Thursday in Brussels to discuss the refugee quotas issue, and put an end to the rifts among them. According to Reuters, there was a free discussion over dinner; that continued until the early morning hours,...

The election results in the German elections on Sunday confirmed the Greek government's worst fears. Athens is putting on a brave face, but the reality is that Angela Merkel, who in the last two years has formed a good working...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras congratulated Angela Merkel on her election victory on Sunday, with a message that he posted on Twitter. "Congratulations to Angela Merkel on her victory in the German elections.  A democratic Europe with solidarity is today more...

In an interview with Bloomberg, Christian Lindner, the pro-market German Free Democrats party (FDP) leader and potential partner in Angela Merkel's next government, proposes a quid pro quo for Greece: a debt "haircut" in exchange for exit from the...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a traditional summer news conference on Tuesday, just less than a month before Germany's Sept. 24 federal election, and appeared optimistic about Greece's path to economic growth. "Regarding the eurozone, we have very positive data....

In an interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood by her policies on the refugee crisis in 2015 and said that it was unfair that Greece and Italy were left on their...