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Paraguay is seeing a surge in German migrants, fleeing Islamic migrants in their own country and onerous coronavirus restrictions.

Poland’s national conservative prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecky, has publicly upbraided the French president, Emmanuel Macron, over his negotiations with Vladimir Putin, insisting they have achieved nothing.

Ukraine’s leading English-language state media outlet has traduced Germany’s political class, including Angela Merkel and the sitting Chancellor and President, as bearing “collective responsibility” for having “effectively encouraged” Russian aggression.

The number of Ukrainian refugees in Poland, mostly women and children, is on course to top the number of migrants taken by Germany during the 2015 migrant crisis.

The head of a major leftist party in Germany has called for former Chancellor Angela Merkel to return to international politics in order to help negotiate a solution to the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will fly to Boston and personally address Harvard’s graduates in May – a full two months before her hermit kingdom opens its borders again to the world.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was re-elected for a second term of five years by a special parliamentary assembly on Sunday.

Delegates from the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel endorsed prominent conservative Friedrich Merz as the new leader on Saturday.

Germany is shutting down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country will shut all nuclear plants.

Members of Germany’s center-right CDU have chosen prominent conservative Friedrich Merz as its new leader.

The Social Democratic Party’s Olaf Scholz has been elected Chancellor of Germany, marking the end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year reign.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has exclaimed “thank goodness we left” the EU in response to reports that the head of the bloc, European Commission Ursula von der Leyen saying mandatory vaccination should be considered, while countries like Greece are threatening to fine senior citizens for every month they go unvaccinated.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s health minister said Friday that more than 1 per cent of the population – almost a million people – are currently infected with the coronavirus, and called on citizens to get vaccinated if they haven’t done so yet.

Angela Merkel has announced a de facto lockdown of the unvaccinated, and that Germany’s parliament will soon vote on making vaccination mandatory.

The approval of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia was outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “biggest mistake”, said Donald Tusk.

A poll has found that the majority of Germans are in favour of making vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus compulsory.

There are growing calls within Germany to follow the lead of neighbouring Austria and mandate vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus.

Chancellor Angela Merkel told the citizens of Germany that it is their “duty” to get vaccinated and compared the coronavirus pandemic to the alleged climate crisis.

Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to influence the Belarusian government to stop the migrant crisis unfolding along the Polish border.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s outgoing health minister is calling on state governments to reactivate some specialized COVID-19 vaccination centres that were closed in the late summer to help administer booster shots as new coronavirus infections increase rapidly.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s newly elected parliament held its first meeting Tuesday and elected a lawmaker from the centre-left Social Democratic Party as speaker of the 736-member lower house, or Bundestag.

Pope Francis had high praise for German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday, predicting that she will “go down in history as one of the great leaders.”

The European Union without Angela Merkel will be like Paris without the Eiffel Tower, gushing Eurocrats told the outgoing German leader on Friday as she attended what ought to be her last ever EU Summit.

Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on forming a new govt.

The Group of 20 (G20) held a video conference on Tuesday at which they agreed the Taliban must be actively involved in distributing humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan. The group insisted this concession should not be construed as formal recognition of the Taliban’s legitimacy.

Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday said talks surrounding a return to the nuclear deal have entered “very decisive weeks,” and warned every day without an accord would see the regime in Tehran continue to enrich uranium.

Merkel said that Germany remains committed to reviving the international nuclear agreement with Iran — a step Israel opposes.

One of three parties holding talks on forming a new German govt says discussions have “a long way to go” over significant policy differences.

Armin Laschet, the successor to Angela Merkel as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has hinted at resigning as party leader.

The likely kingmakers from Germany’s election said they will hold talks on a possible new govt under the leadership of the Social Democrats.

Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc sought to win over the environmentalist Greens for a possible coalition on Tuesday.

The two parties that are expected to determine who will become Germany’s next chancellor have started talks.

“…we will be very fast in getting a result for this government, and it should be before Christmas if possible,” Scholz told reporters.

Angela Merkel’s party has suffered its worst-ever election results in Germany’s federal elections, according to preliminary results.

Exit polls released after polls closed in the German Federal election revealed a neck-and-neck race between the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with their Bavarian allies and the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD).

German voters are heading to the polls in what could be a major political shift in Germany and Europe as the era of Angela Merkel’s reign as Chancellor ends after nearly 16 years in power.

BERLIN (AP) – German voters are choosing a new parliament in an election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after her 16 years at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy.

Merkel was met with boos and whistles at a campaign event alongside her successor Armin Laschet in her home constituency just days before Germans go to the polls.  

The frontrunner in the race to replace Angela Merkel, the SPD’s Olaf Scholz refused to rule out forming a government with the radical left.

A survey pitting outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel against current French President Emmanuel Macron for the head of the European Commission has revealed that many EU countries would support a Merkel presidency.