# angela-merkel - Saturday 16 January, 2021
# Chancellor
# Chancellor
The vote kicks off the race for Germany’s top job – Chancellor ahead of Merkel stepping down in September.
# Goodbye Mutti
# Goodbye Mutti
Merkel has led her party for almost 20 years and her country since 2005.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 13 December, 2020
# Restrictions
# Restrictions
Germany recorded 20,200 newly confirmed cases and 321 additional deaths today.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 25 November, 2020
# Berlin
# Berlin
The car had the slogan ‘You damned murderers of children and old people’ painted on the other side.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 11 October, 2020
# Close Call
# Close Call
Johnson spoke to the French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 6 September, 2020
# Russia
# Russia
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned a lack of support for the investigation could force Germany to rethink the German-Russian gas pipeline project.
# angela-merkel - Thursday 3 September, 2020
# Novichok
# Novichok
Alexei Navalny last month became the latest in a long line of Russian defectors to be poisoned in suspicious circumstances.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 21 July, 2020
# EU Recovery Fund
# EU Recovery Fund
Member states will have to produce national recovery plans to access the funds.
# angela-merkel - Thursday 9 July, 2020
# Frugal Four
# Frugal Four
Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte leads a bloc of countries opposed to the deal.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 19 May, 2020
# European Union
# European Union
Experts say the scale of the crisis and a German constitutional court ruling might have something to do with it.
# angela-merkel - Monday 18 May, 2020
# Franco-german Push
# Franco-german Push
French President Emmanuel Macron said today that Europe’s action at the start of the crisis wasn’t sufficient.
# angela-merkel - Monday 20 April, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
There were encouraging signs in the battle against the virus across the continent over the weekend.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 24 March, 2020
# Concern
From The42
# Concern
Paderborn’s Luca Kilian, 20, was the first player diagnosed with Covid-19 in the German top-flight.
# angela-merkel - Monday 10 February, 2020
# Germany
# Germany
Germany’s next national elections must take place by autumn next year.
# angela-merkel - Saturday 9 November, 2019
# Cold War
# Cold War
Merkel herself grew up in East Germany and was a scientist working in Berlin on 9 November, 1989.
# angela-merkel - Monday 28 October, 2019
# Afd
# Afd
Bjoern Hoecke previously labelled Berlin’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame”.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 9 October, 2019
# Brexit
# Brexit
The tweet featured an image of Merkel and invoked Britain’s wartime victories.
# angela-merkel - Monday 26 August, 2019
# No-deal Brexit
# No-deal Brexit
Boris Johnson was speaking as the G7 conference draws to a close.
# G7
# G7
The three-day summit will conclude later today.
# angela-merkel - Thursday 22 August, 2019
# More Talks
# More Talks
Coveney said the UK backstop alternatives will ‘badly hit’ Ireland and its economy.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 21 August, 2019
# Talks
# Talks
Johnson will seek to convince the German Chancellor to renegotiate elements of the Brexit deal.
# angela-merkel - Monday 15 July, 2019
# Nuclear Talks
# Nuclear Talks
Tensions are continuing to intensify between Iran and the US.
# angela-merkel - Monday 1 July, 2019
# Up All Night
# Up All Night
Talks will resume tomorrow to decide who will get the EU’s top jobs.
# angela-merkel - Friday 21 June, 2019
# EU Top Jobs
# EU Top Jobs
EU leaders failed to agree on a successor to Jean-Claude Juncker.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 9 June, 2019
# Leadership Battle
# Leadership Battle
The Irish government has repeatedly stated the withdrawal agreement would not be reopened.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 28 May, 2019
# European Commission
# European Commission
The German Chancellor prefers Manfred Weber, while Macron wants a centre-left pick, or one of two French candidates.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 14 May, 2019
# Gott Im Himmel
# Gott Im Himmel
The incident happened at Dortmund Airport yesterday.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 9 April, 2019
# Crunch Time
# Crunch Time
Prime Minister Theresa May met with German Chancellor Merkel and French President Macron today.
# angela-merkel - Thursday 4 April, 2019
# The Border Question
# The Border Question
Ahead of the formal meeting, Merkal and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar participated in a roundtable discussion with people from Northern Ireland and the border area.
# Hard Border
# Hard Border
Meanwhile, talks between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are continuing in London today.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 8 January, 2019
# Hacked
# Hacked
The information comprised addresses, phone numbers, letters, invoices and copies of identity documents.
# angela-merkel - Friday 4 January, 2019
# Hacked
# Hacked
The information comprised home addresses, mobile phone numbers, letters, invoices and copies of identity documents.
# angela-merkel - Thursday 3 January, 2019
# Leo Varadkar
# Leo Varadkar
Varadkar had a 40-minute phone call with Chancellor Angela Merkel on how to support Theresa May’s efforts to pass her Brexit deal.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
# Backstop
# Backstop
Jean-Claude Juncker said there’s “no room whatsoever for the renegotiation” of the Brexit deal.
# angela-merkel - Friday 7 December, 2018
# Germany
# Germany
Kramp-Karrenbauer narrowly defeated Friedrich Merz, a one-time Merkel rival.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 18 November, 2018
# Franco-german Push
# Franco-german Push
Macron became the first French president to address the Bundestag in 18 years today.
# angela-merkel - Tuesday 13 November, 2018
# European Security
# European Security
The German Chancellor addressed MEPs in Strasbourg on her vision for the future of Europe.
# angela-merkel - Sunday 28 October, 2018
# Germany
# Germany
According to an exit poll by public broadcaster ARD, Merkel’s CDU shed around 10 points for a 28% score.
# angela-merkel - Wednesday 10 October, 2018
# Crunch Time
# Crunch Time
“Everything is solved only when everything is solved,” the German leader said.
# angela-merkel - Thursday 30 August, 2018
# Chemnitz
# Chemnitz
Sunday and Monday evenings saw outbreaks of street violence in the German city of Chemnitz.
A couple of showers late this afternoon
Max: 10 °C
Min: 3 °C
Variable cloudiness
Max: 11 °C
Min: 6 °C
Times of clouds and sun
Max: 11 °C
Min: 4 °C
