Category: Germany

Obama speaks to Merkel in final call with foreign leader

President Obama spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday in his final conversation with a foreign leader as president. Both leaders agreed maintaining close ties between the U.S. and Europe is “essential to ensuring a a rules-based international order and the defense of values that have done so much to advance human progress in our countries and around the world.”

The Latest: Yale-educated economist takes key European post

President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi speaks during a news conference after a meeting of the governing council in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi speaks during a news conference after a meeting of the governing council in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017.

ECB keeps stimulus on high even as economy picks up

President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi waits for the beginning of a news conference after a meeting of the governing council in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi waits for the beginning of a news conference after a meeting of the governing council in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017.

Germany reviewing nearly 550 migrants deemed a security risk

Germany said on Wednesday it would review the cases of nearly 550 asylum seekers who have been deemed a security risk, spurred by new questions about the handling of a Tunisian migrant who killed 12 people last month at a Berlin Christmas market. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told lawmakers the country’s Joint Terrorism Task Force would look carefully at each of the 547 people identified as a security risk to determine if they needed to be deported or taken into custody.

German Greens choose centrist duo for election campaign

In this Nov. 12, 2016 file photo party chairman Cem Ozdemir, left, and parliamentary faction leader Katrin Goering-Eckardt talk during a party convention of the Green party in Muenster, western Germany. Germany’s traditionally left-leaning Greens on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017 chosen the two centrists to lead them into this year’s election, in which the party could be a key to forming a new government.

Presidential Adviser: Poland Should Increase Military Ties with US

Polish Army and U.S. Army soldiers attend the opening ceremony of the Anaconda-16 military exercise, in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2016. Krzysztof Szczerski, President Andrzej Duda’s top foreign policy adviser, was speaking days before the new U.S. administration that has signaled a friendlier approach to Russia takes power in Washington.

Poland wants to increase its military ties with the US

Krzysztof Szczerski, President Andrzej Duda’s top foreign policy adviser, was speaking days before the new U.S. administration that has signaled a friendlier approach to Russia takes power in Washington. Szczerski also suggested that Poland would welcome the re-election of Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany, Poland’s largest trade partner with whom relations have soured since Polish conservatives came to power a year ago.

European leaders shocked as Trump slams NATO and E.U., raising fears…

European leaders said Monday that they may have to stand alone without the United States once Donald Trump enters office, raising the prospect of an unprecedented breach in transatlantic relations after Trump’s comments that the European Union is bound for a breakup and that NATO is obsolete. Trump said in a weekend interview with the Times of London and Germany’s Bild newspaper that the 28-nation European Union was a vehicle for German interests and said that he was indifferent to the bloc’s fate.

Pence tries to calm worries about Trump’s foreign policy

Vice President-elect Mike Pence attempted to calm European fears on Monday that President-elect Trump is pulling the United States away from its traditional allies and toward Russia. Speaking on Fox News, Pence said Trump’s statements to foreign newspapers that NATO is obsolete that caused a stir Monday, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying Europe’s fate is in “our own hands,” shouldn’t be seen so negatively.

Merkel or Putin: Trump won’t be drawn on who he trusts more

Days away from being sworn in as US President, Donald Trump isn’t saying who he trusts more — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a longtime US ally, or Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump called it a draw — at least for now, in a joint interview conducted on Friday by German publication Bild and the Times of London.

Britain may change ‘economic model’ if shut out of EU single market: Hammond

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Foreign Minister Philip Hammond and Foreign Ministry Political Director Tim Barrow arrive with fellow G7 foreign ministers for a working session, the fourth session of the their meetings in Hiroshima, Japan April 11, 2016. Britain could change its economic model to regain competitiveness if it were to leave the European Union without an agreement on market access, British finance minister Phillip Hammond said in a German newspaper interview published on Sunday.

Jain buys big pipe extrusion line from Battenfeld-Cincinnati at K 2016

Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd., the big Indian plastics processor, ordered a complete extrusion line to make big polyolefin pipes – up to 8.2 feet in diameter – from Battenfeld-Cincinnati Group, at K 2016, the machinery company said in a post-show report. The large-diameter pipe extrusion line includes Battenfeld-Cincinnati’s new solEX NG extruder series, a technology the company highlighted at the K show in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Germany: 280,000 new migrants last year, far lower than 2015

Germany saw about 280,000 new asylum-seekers arrive last year, less than a third of the previous year’s huge influx of 890,000, the interior minister said Wednesday. While new arrivals declined, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that the number of rejected asylum-seekers who left Germany was up – though still not to authorities’ satisfaction.

Euro could be dead in 10 years, says France’s Macron

The euro may not exist in 10 years’ time if Paris and Berlin fail to bolster the single currency union, French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, adding the current system benefited Germany at the expense of weaker member states. Macron was economy minister under Socialist President Francois Hollande until he resigned last year to create his own political movement and stand as an independent candidate in this year’s presidential election.

airberlin Offers Special Deals to Europe From the U.S.

Destinations offered include cities throughout Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Nordics, Switzerland and Eastern Europe. Fares are available from $499 including taxes and most fees based on roundtrip travel to European routes for travel periods from February 1st through June 15, 2017 in economy class and from $2499 from April 1st through June 30th in business class.

Obama says goodbye

NOVEMBER 16: U.S. President Barack Obama waves before descending from Air Force One upon his arrival on November 16, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. President Obama is scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel tomorrow and hold talks with other European leaders on Friday as part of his last trip to Europe as President before continuing to Peru.

Brexit Bulletin: Orderly or Disorderly?

Investors may need to move beyond them too, after spending much of 2016 trying to guess if the prime minister would go hard or soft . British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to members of the Charity Commision for England and Wales at The Royal Society on January 09, 2017 in London.

Merkel pledges quick security action after Berlin attack

Chancellor Angela Merkel promised Monday that Germany’s government would tackle security issues raised by the Christmas market truck attack and renewed a pledge to make a “national effort” to ensure that failed asylum seekers return home. The Dec. 19 truck attack in Berlin demanded a swift response that guarantees both security and civil liberties, Merkel said at a conference of civil servants in Cologne.

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The No Pants Subway Ride began in 2002 in New York as a stunt and has taken place in cities around the wo… . Passengers take part in the No Pants Subway Ride in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017.

No Pants Subway Ride 2017

The No Pants Subway Ride is an annual event which was started in 2002 in New York City by Improv Everywhere. The goal of the cheeky stunt is for riders to get on a subway train dressed in normal winter clothes except for pants, and remain serious.

Extreme cold weather continues to batter East Europe

Icicles hang from a roof of a house in Oberstdorf, southern Germany, Sunday Jan. 8, 2017. Heavy snowfall and below-freezing temperatures continued to sweep the European continent, causing more than a dozen deaths, grounding airplanes and crippling ferries in Italy and Turkey.

Commentary: Migration threatens global disaster

Just in case you are wondering what the most serious question of the New Year will be, you might well start by thinking about Russia’s evil power plays, about the vulgar leaders who seem to be popping up everywhere, or about the rise of the oceans that, until now, have always protected America. All good guesses, but I will guess that you would be wrong.