Europeans must find solutions to shared problems, with Germany and France leading the way as they did in the past, says Guy Verhofstadt.

As Germany tries to come to terms with the latest terror attack to hit Europe, Angela Merkel must ready for the populist hard-right declarations, writes Josh Lowe

German chancellor Angela Merkel’s allies in Bavaria stepped up criticism of her open-door refugee policy yesterday, with their leader demanding a cap of 200,000 migrants a year, about a fifth of last year’s level.

During the past year, right-wing populist politicians have been on the march, in France, the US and even in Germany, where chancellor Angela Merkel’s generous response to the migration crisis has left her exposed, politically, as never before.

Bavarian allies cranked up pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday to reverse her “open-door” refugee policy, saying the deadly attacks in Paris underlined the need for tougher measures to control the influx of migrants.

Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel’s leadership during the Greece crisis has given her conservatives a chance of winning an absolute majority if an election were held next week, an opinion poll yesterday showed.

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German chancellor Angela Merkel faces increased dissent within her governing coalition over extending Greece’s bailout as part of her goal of keeping the eurozone intact.

Angela Merkel was on track to win a third term as chancellor in a German election after her conservatives scored their best result in decades, but it was unclear whether she could avoid being forced into a coalition with her leftist rivals.

Chancellor Angela Merkel looked on track to win a third term in this weekend’s election in Germany but faced a battle to preserve her centre-right majority and avert a potentially divisive coalition with her arch rivals, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD).

Angela Merkel’s allies swept to victory in a state poll in Bavaria yesterday, winning enough support to regain the absolute majority they had lost in 2008 and boosting the chancellor and her conservatives a week before a German federal election.

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.

Germany’s top court probably won’t intervene in the ECB’s plan to buy bonds of crisis-torn countries, in line with previous cases involving the country’s integration with the EU.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said Ireland intends on taking a major step towards recovery this year by exiting the bailout deal.

A German politician says his country should have a referendum on any further financial aid to debt-ridden eurozone countries.

Angela Merkel’s coalition seemed dangerously close to rupture when her Free Democrat (FDP) partners defied the chancellor and backed an opposition candidate for the German presidency, centre-right coalition sources admitted.

A top official from Angela Merkel's sister party has called for Greece to exit the eurozone.

OFFICIALS from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition sent a tough message to Greece yesterday that it might have to leave the eurozone if it fails to meet conditions for its bailout.

GERMANY’S Angela Merkel faces the biggest challenge to her leadership since coming to power in 2005, with traditionally loyal conservative allies openly criticising her approach to the eurozone crisis and her hands-off Libya policy in shambles.

GERMANY’S Angela Merkel faced mounting domestic criticism of her eurozone policies yesterday, with the Bundesbank slamming an anti-crisis package she agreed in Brussels last month anda senior ally warning he would vote againstkey parts of it.

GERMANY’S Angela Merkel faced mounting domestic criticism of her eurozone policies yesterday, with the Bundesbank slamming an anti-crisis package she agreed in Brussels last month anda senior ally warning he would vote againstkey parts of it.

GERMANY’S attempts to create a multicultural society in which people from various cultural backgrounds live together peacefully have failed, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.

BAVARIA’S most glamorous politician, a flame-haired motorcyclist who helped bring down state premier Edmund Stoiber, has shocked the Catholic state by suggesting marriage should last just seven years.

A senior conservative’s participation in Germany’s proposed new left-right government was in doubt today as politicians struggled to digest the implications of a sudden leadership crisis in the centre-left Social Democrats.

Germany’s conservatives are moving toward completing the lineup of Chancellor-designate Angela Merkel’s cabinet, with a key ally preparing to nominate his final choice for the new government.

THE battle to agree to common goals for the future government of Germany is well underway following the division of the ministries between the two coalition partners.

According to reports in the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told his conservative counterparts during coalition talks yesterday that he would not join the new government.

CHANCELLOR Gerhard Schroeder yesterday signalled he may be ready to relinquish power two weeks after Germany’s most inconclusive post-war election, saying he would accept any decision his party takes.

GERMANY’S two biggest parties edged closer to a ‘grand coalition’ yesterday, as conservative leader Angela Merkel said there was a very strong chance the conservatives and Social Democrats would form a government.

VOTERS plunged Germany into political limbo last night, splitting their ballots between Angela Merkel’s conservatives and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats so closely that both claimed victory.

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was squaring off today with his challengers in their last debate before Germany’s election as a new poll showed his Social Democrats continuing to edge forward.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder launched his election campaign today, with an immediate attempt to exploit the conservative opposition’s infighting, to help build on his beleaguered party’s recent rise in opinion polls.

Germany’s conservative opposition was today set to nominate Angela Merkel, a Protestant minister's daughter from the former East Germany, as its challenger to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, giving her the chance to become the country’s first female leader.

A PROJECT initiated by University College Cork is helping to track down paedophiles globally.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was today seeking a second term in national elections dominated by tensions with the US over Iraq and a minister’s comparison of President George W Bush with Adolf Hitler.