Chancellor Angela Merkel says that Germany’s election in four days will be a referendum on the euro’s future stability, as she appealed to voters to reward her handling of the debt crisis with a third term.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has absolved herself of blame for the eurozone’s north-south split during the debt crisis, saying she has Europe’s best interests at heart when pressing the need to become globally competitive.

German vice chancellor Philipp Roesler has been criticised for resurrecting the possibility that Greece should leave the eurozone.

Some of the data published in the first extracts from our most recent census shows that over 80% of Irish people describe themselves as Catholic.

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel must consider joint European bonds as part of a battery of measures aimed at stamping out the debt crisis or risk a “worldwide depression”, said Germany’s BGA exporters’ association.

Gay Mitchell has confirmed that he is to seek the Fine Gael nomination for the Presidency.

CONSERVATIVE leader Angela Merkel looks on track to become Germany’s first woman chancellor, according to polls taken yesterday after a TV debate with incumbent Gerhard Schroeder.

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s party emerged weakened from elections in a small German state, where voters’ frustration with high unemployment helped make opposition conservatives the strongest force.

POPE John Paul II yesterday told European Christian Democratic politicians it would be “unjust” not to explicitly mention Europe’s Christian heritage in the EU constitution.

The outcome of Germany's election is still not known as Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his conservative challenger Edmund Stoiber ran neck-and-neck tonight in one of the country's closest post-war elections.

Germany is marking the 40th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall.