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Germany to help Spain with credit for growth, jobs
Germany is setting up a loan program for struggling small and medium-sized firms in Spain to boost growth and jobs in the crisis-hit southern European ...
IMF urges Germany to keep spending amid low growth
The International Monetary Fund on Monday halved its growth forecast for Germany as the eurozone recession takes its toll on the bloc's largest ...
Erdogan rejects 'dictator' claims
Turkey's prime minister on Sunday rejected claims that he is a "dictator," dismissing protesters as an extremist fringe, even as thousands returned ...
Britain warns against planned EU transaction tax
Britain's foreign minister has urged Chancellor Angela Merkel's government during a trip to Germany to abandon its support for a European tax on ...
Germany's population drops 1.5 million to 80.2 M
Germany managed to lose about 1.5 million people in one day after a new census Friday showed that officials had overestimated the country's population ...
Bayern looks for historic treble in German Cup
Bayern Munich can crown a remarkable season on Saturday with victory in the German Cup final in Jupp Heynckes' last game in charge. Only Stuttgart ...
Russian boy stabbed in Greece treated in Germany
A Russian boy who suffered extensive injuries when he was stabbed during a vacation on the Greek island of Crete is being treated at a hospital in ...
German FM criticizes remarks by Hungarian PM
It started out simple enough: German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized constitutional changes that have been made in Hungary. But Hungary's leader ...
Merkel, Hollande at odds over Europe's way forward
Germany and France recognize that their cooperation is key to overcoming Europe's persistent economic crisis, but comments Thursday by the leaders of ...
German Chancellor Merkel to attend Wembley final
Football fan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to attend the first all-German Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern ...
Luxembourg PM downplays swift tax evasion deal
Luxembourg's Prime Minister says he doesn't expect an agreement on one of the European Union's key policies against tax evasion to emerge at next ...
Europe at odds over next steps to banking union
European leaders are increasingly at odds over how to create a full-fledged banking union, the bloc's key project to stabilize its financial system ...
Merkel shrugs aside new book on communist-era past
Chancellor Angela Merkel has shrugged aside a new book that suggests she may have been closer to East Germany's communist system than previously ...
Turkey says it won't be drawn into Syria conflict
Turkey's prime minister vowed Sunday his country won't be drawn into Syria's civil war, despite twin car bombings the government believes were carried ...
Greuther Fuerth leaves Bundesliga without home win
It started so well for Greuther Fuerth. Three minutes into the relegated club's last Bundesliga game at home on Saturday, Matthias Zimmermann scored, ...
Germany says Obama to visit Berlin in June
President Barack Obama will visit Berlin next month for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on his first visit to the German capital since taking ...
French finance chief hails easing off austerity
French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici on Tuesday hailed the European Union's decision to grant his country more time to tackle its deficit as a ...
German neo-Nazi trial sparks fear of hidden racism
Most of the victims were immigrants and their deaths at first failed to make headlines. Police were quick to blame the slayings on foreign gangs with ...
Hitler's food taster tells of poisoning fears
They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even ...
Baby food shortage in Europe due to China demand
Yong-Hee Kim still can't believe that in a prosperous country like Germany, powdered baby formula would ever be rationed and that she would have to ...