Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall sources.

A panel of top German economists, which has slammed the country's huge public debt, says Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government should take back its "gift baskets" of tax relief, a German weekly reported.

BERLIN, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she expected the German economy to shrink by some 4.5 percent this year, though she added that the contraction could be 4.3 percent. Merkel said there were considerable concerns about credit supply and urged business leaders to talk to banks about the issue of the provision of credit.

BERLIN -A panel of top German economists, which has slammed the country's huge public debt, says Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government should take back its "gift baskets" of tax relief, a German weekly reported. Read more...

It is a great photo: German Chancellor Angela Merkel with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris to transform November 11, the date of Germany’s 1918 defeat, into a “day of Franco-German reconciliation to build a shared future”.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's most striking problem at the start of her new government is not the economy, an unpopular war or the opposition: it's a 66-year-old, 6-foot blonde in her own Christian Democrats, Erika Steinbach.

BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- Governments worldwide will need "coordinated exit strategies" as they emerge from the economic crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a conference Friday.

Cath Everett, BusinessGreen , Friday 20 November 2009 at 15:50:00 German Chancellor fears that ambitions to secure a global pact have diminished For the second time in a week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on all countries to fix binding targets for cutting carbon emissions by the first half of next year at the latest. Merkel said she was worried that ambitions for talks to secure a ...

Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the appointment of the EU's two new top officials on Friday, saying she had full trust in EU President Herman Van Rompuy and foreign policy High Representative Catherine Ashton. The chancellor appr...

BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- Governments worldwide need to design "coordinated exit strategies" as they emerge from the economic crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a conference Friday.