Anheuser-Busch InBev and other German brewers want Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to block any laws that would allow hydraulic fracturing, which, they say could contaminate water used to make beer and hurt the country’s brewing industry. Show More Summary
German brewers are sounding the alarm that allowing fracking could pollute water and ruin German beer. [Telegraph] German brewers have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel that any law allowing the controversial drilling technique known as fracking could damage the country’s cherished beer industry. Show More Summary
German brewers have called on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to block the tapping of shale gas by means of hydraulic fracturing, citing concerns that so-called fracking could taint the purity of the country’s beer. ||| GermanShow More Summary
German brewers say that fracking endangers the purity of their country’s beer. They have urged Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to block the tapping of shale gas by means of hydraulic fracturing (known as fracking). The Association...Show More Summary
She denies she was close to the Communist rulers in East Germany, where she grew up.So this 1972 photo of her in military-style uniform has left German Chancellor Angela Merkel ‘not amused’. Then called Angela Kasner and aged 17, she...Show More Summary
HUNGARY and Germany are usually the best of friends. So the current diplomatic spat between Budapest and Berlin is raising eyebrows across central Europe. It all started on May 16th, when Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, told an...Show More Summary
A diplomatic row has erupted between Germany and Hungary after Angela Merkel said she wouldn’t be ‘sending in the cavalry’ to sort out the fellow EU country’s problems.Hungary’s prime minister responded by referring to the Nazi invasion...Show More Summary
Things seem to be going remarkably well for Germany recently. The country remains one of the few in the eurozone not have slipped into recession, its two top soccer teams -- Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund -- are squaring off inShow More Summary
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, mindful of the weight of Christian voters in September elections, made a quick trip to Rome Saturday for a private meeting with Pope Francis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis on Saturday and, apparently responding to his criticism of a heartless "dictatorship of the economy," called for stronger regulation of financial markets.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, mindful of the weight of Christian voters in September elections, has discussed with Pope Francis how Europe's economy should better serve people.
WHEN a German newspaper in January headlined the success of populists across Europe and their absence in Germany, Frauke Petry thought: “We are here, but nobody sees us yet.” Two months later the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which calls for the euro to be broken up, started making news. Show More Summary
Italy and France need to work 'harder and faster' to resolve their structural problems, a senior ally of German chancellor Angela Merkel said today.Michael Meister, a key figure in Merkel's Christian Democrats, said: 'Italy and France have structural problems to resolve and not economic problems. Show More Summary
Angela Merkel has dismissed claims in a new book that she was more actively committed to East Germany's communist regime than she has acknowledged, saying she has never kept anything secret about her past.The book, "The first life of...Show More Summary
"Runs and Goses" opens at Slow, pairing Julie Potratz with Carol Jackson and Hillary Clinton with Angela Merkel. Read more ?
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel made a surprise visit Friday to northern Afghanistan to visit her troops less than two weeks after insurgents killed a German special forces soldier and wounded a second, a military spokesman said. Show More Summary
For all the Greek haters out there (not you, Angela Merkel), here are two great pics of my guys: The first picture is from Greek Week, where all the frats and sororities compete all week long in a number of events (athletic events, trivia night, etc.), and there they are participating in Greek Sing. The [...]
As the financial crisis has taken its toll on Europe’s southern perimeter, Germany has grown used to being insulted and vilified. In Greece, Cyprus and even Spain and Portugal, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Germans in general have been...Show More Summary
European carbon prices surged to their biggest-ever weekly gain on Friday after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the EU should take action on a plan to postpone the supply of permits. The December futures contract advanced 22 percent since April 26, closing at €3.78 ($4.98) a metric ton on London’s ICE Futures Europe exchange, Bloomberg [...]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives plunged to their lowest rating in seven months in a leading opinion poll on Sunday as a tax evasion scandal embroiled an ally and their Bavarian sister party faced questions about nepotism.Support...Show More Summary