BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a tough stance against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, condemning his re-election last week as illegitimate and vowing in an interview with The Associated Press that the European Union would seek...
BERLIN (AP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken a tough stance against Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, saying that the European Union will seek «all possible sanctions» against his regime.
«We will think up all possible sanctions and check to...
July 1 (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations meet in Japan on July 7-9.
Following are some key facts about them:
* JAPAN - YASUO FUKUDA:
-- Yasuo Fukuda, 71, became Japan's prime minister in September 2007 after...
This is the view of German chancellor Angela Merkel, when asked on France 24about the Polish ratification of the constitutional Lisbon treaty.
Her comment followed the news that Poland's President Lech Kaczynski had announced that he would only...
Background
Angela Dorothea Merkel (help·info) (IPA: [ˈaŋɡela doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛɐ̯kəl]) (born Angela Dorothea Kasner, 17 July 1954, in Hamburg, Germany), is the Chancellor of Germany. Merkel, elected to the German Parliament from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union CDU since 9 April 2000, and Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary party group from 2002 to 2005. She leads a Grand coalition with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), formed after the 2005 federal election on 22 November 2005.
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