Chancellor Angela Merkel was counting the cost on Monday of an historic drubbing for her conservative party by voters in Germany's most populous state, in the countdown to next year's national polls.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived on Monday in Afghanistan on a previously unannounced visit to troops stationed at Mazar-i-Sharif, a spokesman said.

Merkel had wanted to visit Kunduz but had t

German parliament is set to vote for the second financial bailout for Greece amid signs of a new dispute within Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition over whether the debt-laden nation sho

Chancellor Angela Merkel said her coalition and the opposition had agreed on Sunday to nominate former East German rights activist Joachim Gauck as a consensus candidate to become Germany's next presi

Angela Merkel's hand-picked choice for the ceremonial post of president resigned on Friday in a scandal over political favors, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro zone deb

Angela Merkel's hand-picked choice for the ceremonial post of president resigned on Friday in a scandal over political favours, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro zone cr

The eurozone crisis seemed to vanish from the headlines for a brief moment as 2011 ticked over into 2012, but it is about to return with a vengeance.

The coming months will be decisive in determining

German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday, kicking off a week of high-level talks to lay the groundwork for a crunch EU summit on taming the eurozone crisis.

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The new year will probably be worse than the last, but Germany, Europe's biggest economy, should be able to withstand it, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview on Monday.

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Working almost to exhaustion and persuading countries one by one, European leaders agreed on Friday to redefine their continent — hoping that by joining their fiscal fortunes they might stop a crippli