#Angela Merkel

French President Emmanuel Macron invited EU leaders Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker to join him and present a united European front on Tuesday morning on the third day of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to France.

Voters in the southern German state of Bavaria were going to the polls on Sunday in a regional election that could shake the fragile coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday for talks about the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, as well as the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project that has drawn U.S. ire.

On 19 February, Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble in Berlin.

Many believe that it is time for a management reshuffle within Germany's major political parties.

Angela Merkel's speech given to reporters by the governmental press service reads that the chancellor plans to form the stable government as soon as possible in 2018.

The German Free Democratic Party (FDP) announced its withdrawal from the coalition talks with the CDU/CSU and the Greens in late November, with Merkel being unable to create a coalition and form a majority government.

Germany's Chancellor has abandoned hopes of creating a so-called 'Jamaica Coalition' with the Greens and center-right Free Democrats; instead she will turn to the tested option of establishing a coalition with the Social Democrats, despite initial misgivings among her fellow Christian Democrats and Bavarian CSU allies.

The chancellor is on course for a fourth term but the emergence of the anti-immigrant party promises a bittersweet outcome. 

Any United Nations peacekeepers sent to eastern Ukraine must be granted access to the entirety of the region held by Moscow-backed separatists, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted on October 1 that she had not reversed course on her policy on migrants, two weeks after she said she wished she could turn back the clock to better prepare Germany for last year's influx.