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German Chancellor and head of the Christian Democratic party (CDU) Angela Merkel (R) and the head of the Christian Social party (CSU) Horst Seehofer. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
Merkel allies launch fresh EU critical campaign

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), are pushing for Berlin to join efforts to prune back EU regulations and (...)

In her new year’s television address this week, German chancellor Angela Merkel told viewers she was anxious to see the EU work through its to-do list ahead of May’s European election, demonstrating greater “readiness to put into practice what we have resolved to do”. Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty Images
Angela Merkel’s new year’s resolution: fresh EU air

Angela Merkel’s new year’s resolution, she told German television viewers this week, was the same as every year: to get more fresh air.But German neig(...)

Passengers boarding a bus departing for western Europe at the central bus station in Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgarians and Romanians can work freely in all EU countries, since midnight on December 31st, 2013. Photograph: Vassil Donev/Epa
German coalition partners at odds over ‘welfare tourism’

Two weeks after taking office, chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partners are at loggerheads over claims that Germany is facing a wave of so-cal(...)

An original copy of “Mein Kampf” found after the liberation of Europe. Photograph: Glenn Asakawa/The Denver Post via Getty Images
Bavarian battle looms on ‘Mein Kampf’

A battle is looming over Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf after Bavaria abandoned plans to finance a critical edition of the work and instead will challenge (...)

Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, Horst Seehofer (left), leader of the Christian Social Union, with German transport minister Peter Ramsauer following preliminary talks with the SPD in Berlin yesterday. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Germany poised for another grand coalition

Germany has moved one step closer to another grand coalition government after the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) a(...)

Bavarian state premier and leader of the Christian Social Union Horst Seehofer gestures as he addresses his party members in Munich yesterday. Photograph: Reuters/Michael Dalder
Merkel faces electoral dilemma in final week

Allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel have admitted that Germany’s federal election is on a “knife-edge” after their Free Democrat (FDP) coalition partne(...)

Confident swagger: Bavarian state premier and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer at his party’s final election campaign meeting in Munich on Thursday. Photograph: Michaela Rehle.
Bavarian curtain-raiser causing headaches for Merkel strategists

Ask a Bavarian about their homeland and you’re likely to hear that theirs is the better Germany. The land of King Ludwig and Oktoberfest, beer and BMW(...)

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