Angela Merkel

The studies provided a much-needed shot in the arm for investors, who have been put on edge in recent weeks by worrying spikes in new infections.

Merkel had drawn up the backbone of the deal along with French President Emmanuel Macron.

London will host EU negotiator Michel Barnier after a round of face-to-face talks ended a day early last week in Brussels.

Merkel's last major role on the international stage comes as the 27-member club faces its deepest recession since World War II.

The new round of talks in Brussels will be the first to be held face-to-face since the coronavirus shutdown.

Trump said he would postpone the planned June summit of leaders after Angela Merkel said she would not be coming, citing the coronavirus pandemic.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel became the first leader to decline the in-person invitation outright.

Germany's influential DFL football league has long urged restarting play.

Germany began tentatively lifting its lockdown two weeks ago, opening some shops and schools, after infection rates came down.

The virus is believed to have originated late last year in a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan that sold wild animals for human consumption.

The less encouraging data will flow into the chancellor's deliberations with regional leaders on Thursday.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and regional state premiers announced the decision to reopen last week, but it is a cautious first step.

Johnson has deputised his foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to stand in for him, but remained conscious according to Downing Street.

This is the first time the German Chancellor took to the airwaves to address citizens directly outside of traditional New Year's greetings.

As the number of cases in Germany pushed beyond 900, Health Minister Jens Spahn said gatherings of more than 1,000 people should be scrapped.

Amid the national outrage, the liberal candidate elected during the first vote on February 5 stepped down, leaving the state rudderless.

The drawn-out tussle for money is a Brussels ritual, but is especially problematic this time around because of Britain's departure from the EU.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the eve of the summit predicted "very tough and difficult negotiations" around the table.

On November 9 itself, only central European presidents will headline the official ceremonies.

Boris Johnson spoke to Angela Merkel as he tried to salvage new divorce terms he has proposed ahead of next week's pivotal EU summit in Brussels.

The centre-right Chirac, acknowledged even by foes as a canny political fighter, rose to prominence as mayor of Paris before becoming prime minister and then president.

FLOTUS smiling and greeting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G7 Summit with an "air kiss" while holding hands with her husband has gone viral.

The idea of liberal democracy — for decades the cornerstone of the vaunted "European project" — is under fire.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel quits as head of her Christian Democratic party and won't run for another term a in 2021.

Merkel's visit as the head of a delegation of government and business leaders is her first since she formed her new government.

Germany's equality czar wants to remove words like "fatherland" and "brotherly".

President Vladimir Putin spoke to Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron over the violence in Syria.

Germany is biggest breaker of EU rules and subject to 74 infringement proceedings, according to figures released by German Economics Ministry.

Weeks of talks after the elections have brought political and economic uncertainty to Europe's largest economy.

Germany has granted asylum to four Turkish soldiers, one of whom is accused of being a leading figure in the failed July 2016 military coup.