Tag: Chancellor Angela Merkel

Merkel calls Macron’s NATO ‘brain death’ comment ‘sweeping judgement’

Macron's comments came after the US president decided to pull troops out of north-eastern Syria last month without consulting his allies which initiated an offensive by the Turkish forces on Kurds.

November 8, 2019

Merkel bids for fourth term as Germans head to the polls

Chancellor Angela Merkel was widely expected to win a fourth term in office as Germans went to the polls today in an election that is also likely to see the farthest right-wing party in 60 years, the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany, win seats in parliament. Merkel campaigned on her record as chancellor for 12 years, …

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September 24, 2017

Ms Merkel in trouble

In many ways, Germany has enjoyed a successful summer. Unemployment rates are the lowest since unification, Germany has overtaken China as the world&’s leading exporter, and after decades of deficit spending there is a surplus of 18 billion Euros from taxes for the first half of 2016. Moreover, the flood of refugees from 2015 has …

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September 13, 2016

Meet Europe’s oldest living inhabitant

A Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii) growing in the highlands of northern Greece has been dendrocronologically dated to be more than 1075 years old. This makes it currently the oldest known living tree in Europe. It is one of more than a dozen individuals of millennial age, living in a treeline forest high in the Pindos …

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August 21, 2016