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Germany's finance minister honoured for his role stabilising monetary union. The judges for the 2012 Charlemagne Prize have exhibited an unfashionable degree of confidence in...

The vice-chancellor of Germany is young and has a great deal of responsibility on his shoulders. Philipp Rösler is just 38 years of age and already vice- chancellor of...

The German chancellor's communications failure is inextricably linked to how she operates politically. Stepping out of the arrivals hall of Berlin's Tegel airport last week,...

Social Democrats and Greens take control of Baden-Württemberg. Germany's Christian Democrats, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have lost control of...

Germany's finance minister finally gets a new spokesman. Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's finance minister, has found someone prepared to work as his spokesman, four months...

Germany's minister for food and farming is very different from the scowling, heavy-set men who preceded her. Ilse Aigner is an odd fit for Germany's ministry for food,...

The increase would mean transferring €13.2 million from the Parliament's reserve budget. The European Parliament's budgets committee will today (3 March) assess a...

The origins and motives of a Green MEP. Rebecca Harms, the co-leader of the Green/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, has become a de facto German...

Might the ascent of the Free Democrats break the vicious circle in which Germany and its neighbours find themselves? Eastern Europe owes a huge debt to the Germans. West...

Germany's Free Democrats have the power. Germany's Free Democrats became kingmakers in last Sunday's elections, scoring their best ever result with 14.6% of the vote and...

New faces being lined up to form centre-right government, but only minor policy shifts are expected. Yesterday's elections in Germany returned the liberal Free Democratic...

Liberals set to become kingmakers in Germany's general election, but EU issues not mentioned in election campaign. When Germany's 60 million voters go to the polls on 27...

For years to come, Germany's role in Europe will be determined by the Constitutional Court's ruling. The ruling that Germany's Constitutional Court made on the Treaty of...

Draft law to be debated by parliament next week. Germany's ruling political parties yesterday agreed a draft law on the implementation of the Lisbon treaty that will be...

Treaty would benefit Germany in many areas, while court ruling could affect further integration. If and when the Lisbon treaty comes into force, Germany stands to be the big...

Second, €50 billion stimulus package focuses on industry, infrastructure and consumption. The German coalition government has unveiled a €50 billion stimulus...

Bundsrat vote makes Germany the 14th state to approve the Treaty of Lisbon. The German parliament has completed the process of ratifying the Treaty of Lisbon, with the...

Wilhelm Schönfelder, Germany's permanent representative to the EU, will go into retirement at the end of July, having steered Germany's presidency of the EU safely home....

Among Germans, Bavarians are a special breed: garbed in Lederhosen and other throwback attire, touting their status as a “Free State” and calling those outside the region...

The European Union has reached the end of an era and needs to be rebuilt from scratch on foundations that appeal to its citizens and that its people understand. This is not...