Chancellor Angela Merkel is strongly favoured to win a third term at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy as Germans vote in a national election..

Angela Merkel is in a fight to clinch a new term for her ruling coalition despite enjoying overwhelming popularity and leading an economy that is the envy of Europe.

Swiss voters voiced their anger at perceived corporate excesses today by approving measures to boost shareholders’ say on executive pay.

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

The troika arrives back in Athens this morning with pressure mounting on the Greeks to speed up reforms as German politicians re-ignite the idea of kicking them out of the eurozone.

Germany’s Angela Merkel has insisted that a bad local election defeat for her party will not weaken her as she grapples with Europe’s deepening debt crisis.

Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition is squabbling so much over the eurozone debt crisis that even the opposition is urging her to quash the infighting.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition suffered a new blow as Germany’s main opposition parties celebrated gains in a state election.

ATTEMPTS to reorganise the EU’s rescue fund were dealt a blow by the junior coalition partners in Angela Merkel’s government when they ruled out any changes as they fight to retain seats in pending regional elections.

Juergen Moellemann, a prominent German opposition politician accused of campaigning on anti-Semitic themes in last year’s national election, died in a parachute jump, just as prosecutors stepped up a finance investigation against him.