Social Democrat politician Aydan Özoğuz was Angela Merkel's minister of state concerned with immigration, refugees and integration from 2013 to 2018. She describes to Josephine McDermott visiting her ...

Angela Merkel was elected chancellor of Germany on November 22, 2005, becoming the first woman to hold that job. In many ways ...

A day after his speech to the Muslim world, President Obama moved quickly to build momentum for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, telling reporters Friday that he's sending special envoy George ...

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The attack saw a black BMW X3 driven through a gap in the security barrier around the market's perimeter, supposed to be in ...

And in my view, it’s since 2008 that actually this cascade of crises begins, beginning with the near simultaneous events of ...

A German court on Friday temporarily prohibited the BfV domestic intelligence agency from placing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party under surveillance, a major embarrassment for the ...

The European Central Bank will soon fire the starting gun on a sweeping reshuffle of its top ranks — a contest that will ...

German Environment Minister, Carsten Schneider, published praise for Belém on his Instagram account German Environment ...

David Cameron makes an unlikely villain. Impeccable manners, capable in a crisis, unflappable: he seemed destined to become ...

The doctor accused of driving a car into a crowded German Christmas market has apologised to the family of a nine-year-old ...

At the same time, refugees in Germany are reporting a surge in xenophobia and feelings of insecurity, according to a long-term study published in August by the German Institute fo ...