...governments dropped sharply in response to the changes proposed by French President Nikolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They said their proposals would prevent the kind of out-of-control spending and borrowing that led to the debt...
...target to insult.In a wiretapped conversation reported a few weeks ago, Berlusconi described Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, with a phrase too vulgar to be printed in this newspaper but that meant he considered her too unattractive to invite...
...The economic future of Europe will be a hot topic when G-8 leaders meet this week at Camp David. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will have to stand strong against her counterpart in France, the newly elected President Francois Hollande, who just...
...too long ago) to sign up for tighter deficit limits and sanctions on offenders. According to German Prime Minister Angela Merkel, a solution would have been "unthinkable" a few months ago. The European Union's delegate to the U.S., Francois...
...Colombia, killing 47 people. In 2005, an Arab-American college student, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, was convicted of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush. Angela Merkel took power as Germany's first female chancellor.
...a disgrace. Over and over, leaders such as Britain's Gordon Brown, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel have said the situation in Darfur is "intolerable." Yet, although NATO countries among them have 18,000 helicopters...
...political timetables; whereas Obama enjoys a fresh mandate and at least four years to work with, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who leads Europe's biggest economy, faces her fiscally conservative voters this year. The U.S.-European...
...get off without injury when they are the third-largest occupying force in Afghanistan." On Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged calm, saying "people can be confident that everything is being done for their security." In London, Prime...
...Though few other European countries can match France when it comes to civil unrest, leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have seen their...
...Afghans defied a Taliban boycott call and militant attacks to vote for a new parliament. German conservative challenger Angela Merkel's bloc won the most votes in elections, but fell short of a clear mandate to govern.
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