Organisation: Bundesrat

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

business

Greens want Merkel to pump up budget spending

The leader of Germany’s surging Greens party, a likely coalition partner in any new government, raised the pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives to ditch their balanced budget goal and finance a climate protection plan with new debt.

business

Swiss-German tax accord is dead and buried’ say critics

business

Euro at four month high after German bailout ruling

business

Long on big plans, short on measures

world

Merkel’s party in crushing poll defeat

world

German parliament agrees to bailout

The future of Europe, or the future of the Iron Chancellor?

IN what will be a defining moment for Europe, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel will today find out whether the lower house of the German parliament, the Bundestag, will green light the country’s €22.3 billion share of the €110bn bailout of Greece.

Fri, 07 May, 2010

Contempt for politicians no reason to repudiate vital national interests

The state guarantee on Irish bank deposits, nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank and NAMA would all have been impossible without the ECB’s €100bn.

Thu, 17 Sep, 2009

Schroeder vows to press ahead with controversial economic reform

GERMAN Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, humiliated by the third state election rout for his Social Democrats this year, vowed yesterday to press on with painful economic reforms to pull Germany out of recession.

Tue, 23 Sep, 2003