https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived Friday at the G20 meeting in Osaka amid fears over her health after she suffered a second public bout of uncontrollable shaking in just over a week. https://www.thelocal.de/20190628/merkel-arrives-safely-at-g20-after-shaking-scare Fri, 28 Jun 2019 10:47:01 +0200 merkel-arrives-safely-at-g20-after-shaking-scare The G7 summit ended in farce and a renewed threat of global trade war on Saturday as US President Donald Trump abruptly rejected the text of a consensus statement and bitterly insulted the Canadian host. https://www.thelocal.de/20180610/trump-trade-fury-torpedoes-canadas-g7-summit Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:16:35 +0200 trump-trade-fury-torpedoes-canadas-g7-summit Chancellor Angela Merkel refused on Monday to put her name to a joint EU statement that would have declared the Balkan route closed to refugees, as tens of thousands of asylum seekers remain stranded in Greece. https://www.thelocal.de/20160307/merkel-scuppers-eu-plan-to-close-balkan-route Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:04:54 +0100 merkel-scuppers-eu-plan-to-close-balkan-route Jean Claude Juncker, the most senior politician in Europe, said that Chancellor Angela Merkel is on the right side of history in the refugee debate. https://www.thelocal.de/20160217/history-will-show-merkel-was-right-on-refugees-juncker Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:36:43 +0100 history-will-show-merkel-was-right-on-refugees-juncker Abandoned by France, defied by eastern Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel cuts a lonely figure in her struggle for EU "solidarity" on the refugee crisis ahead of a Brussels summit. https://www.thelocal.de/20160214/merkel-isolated-as-allies-slam-door-on-refugees Sun, 14 Feb 2016 09:43:24 +0100 merkel-isolated-as-allies-slam-door-on-refugees At a hastily-convened summit in Brussels that continued late into the night on Wednesday, EU leaders agreed on spending and strategy for the coming months to try and lighten the load on countries most heavily burdened by the refugee crisis. https://www.thelocal.de/20150924/eu-leaders-commit-fresh-billions-for-refugees Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:30:01 +0200 eu-leaders-commit-fresh-billions-for-refugees Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning a long tour of the US in April in order to improve strained relations between the US and Europe, according to a magazine report. She will also attend a nuclear weapons security summit. https://www.thelocal.de/20100221/25403 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:54:00 +0100 25403 Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Afghanistan on Monday, following a key NATO summit, to meet German troops stationed in the north of the war-torn country, officials announced. https://www.thelocal.de/20090406/18475 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:49:00 +0200 18475 President Barack Obama praised NATO on Saturday for committing up to 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan, singling out commitments from France and Germany as proof of their "seriousness of purpose." https://www.thelocal.de/20090405/18459 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:41:00 +0200 18459 Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel was snubbed by Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday when he continued a mobile phone call instead of greeting Merkel and posing for a group photo with NATO's other 27 leaders on a bridge spanning the Rhine river. https://www.thelocal.de/20090404/18447 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:42:00 +0200 18447 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück are lobbying for tighter global finance cooperation and regulation at the Washington G20 economic summit this weekend. https://www.thelocal.de/20081115/15545 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:01:00 +0100 15545