Chancellor Angela Merkel

The United Nations is to mark the 75th anniversary of its founding amid the ruins of World War II with a large online event on Monday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. Guterres is expected to deliver in-person, remarks in…

Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany aims to fight for a Brexit deal to the last, in cooperation with the other member states of the European Union. All 27 countries would fight to the last day to ensure that Britain did not crash out…

German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said on Monday that she would force the government to move forward with a draft law to protect the climate and accused Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc of stalling on the issue. “I…

German satirist Jan Boehmermann is taking Chancellor Angela Merkel to court over her assessment of a 2016 poem he read out on television mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Berlin administrative court spokesman said on…

A compromise on an advertising ban on abortions that was labouriously wrung out between Germany’s coalition partners is expected to be approved on Wednesday by the cabinet in Berlin.  The agreement between the conservative bloc led by…