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Germany’s Merkel eases Jewish concerns over circumcision ruling
Angela Merkel sought to ease the concerns of Germany’s Jews Sunday over a disputed ruling against circumcision as she became the first chancellor to address the Jewish community’s annual council meeting. “The respecting of religious ritual is a fundamental good,” she told the annual gathering of the Central Council of…
Germany outraged by Italian newspaper’s ‘Fourth Reich’ headline
Paper owned by Silvio Berlusconi’s brother insults Angela Merkel German politicians have reacted furiously to this front page in the Italian daily Il Giornale with its headline “Fourth Reich” above a picture of Chancellor Angela Merkel raising her hand in a vaguely fascist salute. The paper is owned by the…
Chancellor admits circumcision ban could make Germany ‘laughing stock’
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel told her party the country risked becoming a “laughing stock” over a court ruling calling religious circumcision a criminal act, according to a report Monday. The mass-circulation daily Bild said in an article to be published Tuesday that Merkel warned the board of her conservative Christian…
Obama lauds ‘positive steps’ to tackle euro crisis
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama called German counterpart Angela Merkel on Tuesday to welcome “positive steps” taken by the European Union to ease its smoldering debt crisis, the White House said. Hours after the EU and the private sector inked a 237-billion-euro ($310 billion) bailout designed to keep Greece…
Leaders meet on crunch weekend for European banking
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagardearrived in Paris on Saturday for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy on a crunch weekend for the European debt crisis. She made no comment as she went into the Elysee palace. After their talks, Sarkozy was to head to Berlin on Sunday to meetGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel,…
Euro chiefs race to prop up banks
Facing renewed calls by US President Barack Obama for swift action to tackle its debt crisis, eurozone leaders raced Friday to stave off a credit crunch with talks in Berlin and Athens. Efforts now seem focused on reassuring investors that Europe’s banks are safe, to dispel fears of a possible…
Merkel wins key euro vote, Greece gets audit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday won a crucial vote on boosting the EU’s rescue fund that was seen as a perilous test of her authority as debt-mired Greece braced for an international audit. The news came as a relief to Merkel, but jittery markets took the result in their stride,…
Europe has ‘thrown away’ recovery: Brown
Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel have used the wrong measures to resolve the eurozone debt crisis and thrown away the chances of recovery, former prime minister Gordon Brown said Sunday. Brown said the French president and the German chancellor were exacerbating the financial crisis, which he said was “predictable,” in…
Germany will ‘exit’ nuclear power industry, Merkel vows
BERLIN (AFP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Thursday that Germany would speed up the transition to renewable energy as Europe’s top economy mulled a “measured exit” from nuclear power after the events in Japan. “We want to reach the age of renewable energy as soon as possible. That is our…
Germany and Switzerland freeze development of nuclear reactors
Germany and Switzerland said Monday that they would be the first industrialized nations to freeze development of nuclear power facilities while they reassess safety procedures, in the wake of Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis following last week’s devastating earthquake. Despite assurances, six of their reactors are said to be melting down…
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