Angela Merkel

Deliveries of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine to European Union member states have begun rolling out earlier than expected in a bo(...)

The Kremlin has warned Ukraine that all-out war in its eastern Donbas region would be the “beginning of the end” for the country and that Russia would(...)

When is a lockdown not a lockdown? When it’s a German lockdown. A year after the country’s first Covid-19 restrictions, a linguistic misunderstanding (...)

Even by Angela Merkel’s own tastes, the last act of Germany’s opera-loving chancellor is bursting with high drama. After nearly 16 years astride the p(...)

With a summery Easter weekend looming, Berlin, Hamburg and Brandenburg have imposed night-time restrictions in response to recent gatherings of crowds(...)

Chancellor Angela Merkel ditched a plan agreed on Tuesday for an extended Easter holiday to try to break a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, ap(...)

Chancellor Angela Merkel has ordered a five-day lockdown over Easter in one of Germany’s toughest moves since the start of the pandemic, highlighting (...)

European stocks eased from a one-year peak on Tuesday, as a new wave of coronavirus infection and a fresh lockdown in Germany raised fears of a slow e(...)

Germany has extended its lockdown measures and imposed several new restrictions, including largely shutting down public life over Easter, in an effort(...)

A flight from Cuba to Germany was forced to make an emergency stop at Shannon Airport, Co Clare, after a German politician on board lost consciousness(...)