The leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and the United States will hold talks on terrorism, Syria, North Korea and the global economy at G7 Summit in an ancient city of Taormina, Italy on 26-27 May, 2017. Talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders of the world’s rich nations at the…
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Macron-Merkel to speed-up EU integration
During the visit to Berlin German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to draw a roadmap to deeper European Union integration and opened the door to changing the EU27 treaties to facilitate ambitious reforms. #Mercron is officially a thing 🇫🇷🇩🇪 pic.twitter.com/j4BUMd347j — DW News (@dwnews) May 15, 2017 A day after Macron’s…
Macron to visit Merkel
Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, is to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on 15 of May, on his first visit abroad. Germany is traditionally the first country newly elected French leaders pay a visit. Merkel and Macron will also give a joint press conference and will attend an official dinner, the German leader’s spokesman,…
Merkel underlines unity with France
“Macron carries the hopes of millions of French people and also many in Germany and across Europe,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, adding she was “very pleased” by his victory. Millions of Europeans were counting on the success of incoming French president Emmanuel Macron, and vowed to help the latter tackle unemployment, Merkel told to…
Merkel to visit Sochi
Germany’s Angela Merkel will visit Sochi, Russia, for talks on May 2 with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first bilateral visit since Maidan revolution in Ukraine and following sanctions over Crimea in 2014. The talks will be ‘pragmatic’ with no immediate prospect that Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis will be…
Germany spied on Interpol and Europol
Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency spied on the Interpol international police agency for years and on the group’s country liaison offices in dozens of countries such as Austria, Greece and the United States, a German magazine Der Spiegel said. No comment was immediately available from the BND, Interpol or Europol. Der Spiegel magazine, citing documents it…
Schaeuble: EU needs flexible speeds
It is not realistic to take further steps towards European Union integration at this point and after Britain’s vote to leave the bloc its remaining members must be ready to form ‘coalitions of the willing’, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said. “Given the current situation, it is not realistic to think that we can take…
Schaeuble for multilateralism
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Thursday it would be possible to develop the euro zone’s European Stability Mechanism (ESM) rescue fund into a European monetary fund soon. FinMin Schäuble at @CarnegieEndow: We need to focus on making economies more resilient — German Embassy (@GermanyinUSA) April 20, 2017 Asked if this would be possible…
Schaeuble fears Brexit “contamination”
German Finance Minister Woflfgang Schaeuble said that the European Union was trying to limit the negative effects of Brexit for Britain but stressed that countries wanting to get the benefits related to the bloc had to make commitments, too. “We need to find a fair path – if Britain still wants to have good access…
EU27 ‘Multi-speed’
On Monday, 6.03.2017, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Spain met at the palace of Versailles, in outskirts of Paris, to prepare for a March 25 EU summit in Rome devoted to the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which laid the foundation of the European project. The leaders of the euro zone’s…
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