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For the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, creating a club-within-a-club is the only means of imposing discipline on wayward members.

He is said to be one of the few non-German policymakers to have had influence over Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor.

And chancellor Angela Merkel, who was brought up in East Germany, said the night the wall came down was a fulfillment of a dream.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Stark stood for a "culture of stability" in the euro zone to which her government strongly adhered.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the resignation was unexpected, as Oana Lungescu now reports from Berlin.

Germany's Angela Merkel made clear two years ago that, if Russia wanted better relations with the EU, it had to mend fences with Poland.

There's been a setback for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in regional elections a month before voters choose a new federal parliament.

German chancellor Angela Merkel and often-outspoken President Nicolas Sarkozy of France did not reveal a preference before the meeting.

It is the latest of the party's beliefs to be junked by Angela Merkel, as she tries to steal opposition ideas before the next election.

This week's declaration from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was an unpromising start.

It was just the sort of photo-op German Chancellor Angela Merkel urgently needs.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who runs Europe's largest economy, has so far refused to give the green light to any aid package.

But although all this was troubling, Angela Merkel's attempt to fix it has been spectacularly clumsy.

The proposals mooted this week by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy gave little indication that they are ready to do so.

On a chilly October evening in her austere chancellery, Angela Merkel placed a confidential call to Rome to help save the euro.

In Angela Merkel, Germany also has one of the few EU leaders able to translate national power into international influence.

Final details were expected to be worked out in a meeting Monday of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeated her belief that Turkey should not be a full member of the European Union.

The U. S. president said he discussed the situation in the Middle East with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"I didn't hire him as a research assistant, " said the chancellor, Angela Merkel, herself boasting a PhD (legitimately, it is believed).

Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, told German television ZDF that she "regretted" GM's inaction and said a decision was needed urgently.

But Angela Merkel, with her quiet steel and very Lutheran common sense, is a leader without whom Europe would be in disarray.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suffered a humiliating result in a key regional election in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country's attempts to build a multicultural society have, in her words, "utterly failed" .

Lately the president has found a new European friend in Angela Merkel.

Angela Merkel has good reason to be pleased with the outcome of the meeting of the Group of Eight leading countries she chaired this week.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the same day, the stability of the euro area more important than the fate of Greece.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met with a Chinese Catholic bishop in Shanghai on the final day of her visit to China.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would be good if Colonel Gaddafi gave up power as quickly as possible.

But Chancellor Angela Merkel has been fighting for weeks to quell a rebellion by some of her backbenchers against the EFSF expansion.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated that creating such a bond would be no solution to the turmoil.

As Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has pointed out, the European sovereign debt crisis poses a threat to the very future of the EU.

Yet despite his often strained ties with Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr Sarkozy seems to find it hard to resist taunting her.

Angela Merkel said there was no need for a summit right now.

He just has to call "Madame Europa" , alias Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, in Berlin.

I become nervous when Angela Merkel says the future of the euro and that of the EU are inextricably linked.

Mr. Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to downplay the sniping from officials that dominated the run-up to the summit.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, as the main architect of the Lisbon treaty, wants swift approval of a law that does not hamstring the government.

Both President Sarkozy of France and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, speak of a Europe that "protects" .

Health reform is one of the big projects of Germany's coalition government, led by Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Angela Merkel , don't keep staring at the mud on China's shoes, clear up the dirt on the back of your own neck first.

He is an adviser to Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, who has been a powerful force in shaping European policy.

While Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany accepted full responsibility for the war, Mr Putin was much more careful with his phrasing.

Angela Merkel had less the aura of a leader who has just saved the euro than the air of an executive who has just cleared her desk.

Angela Merkel might also be seen to be in this group, compromised by her indecisiveness.

We would like to ask you, Angela Merkel, to please side with humanity and break away from this murderous cabal.

German chancellor Angela Merkel, her vociferous critics to the contrary, is proceeding as quickly as she can, which means not very.

ANGELA MERKEL'S political credibility has not yet been downgraded to junk status, but the past few days have done it no good at all.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have hammered out a common position on the euro debt crisis.

Germany's Angela Merkel, who criticised Russia's parliamentary election, telephoned to say she could work well with Mr Medvedev.

His model was "Franco-German understanding" built on his friendship with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, waded into Germany's debate on immigration, saying that multiculturalism had "utterly failed" .

The German government of Angela Merkel is losing support and is facing an increasingly Eurosceptic public.

The position was discussed last night by President Sarkozy of France and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, at a meeting in Paris.

Also, the German chancellor Angela Merkel allegedly changed her negative opinion on a loan for Greece for the same reason.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor of the past three years, has been notable mainly for her invisibility.

The deal has been welcomed by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel whose government has offered financial support for the new owners.

He secured a cheerful photo with Angela Merkel days after a diplomatic punch-up in Brussels.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said that "measured by our standards, it was neither a free, fair nor democratic election. "

I think what Chancellor Angela Merkel is trying to do is to say, 'Where is this going? What sort of system are you going to try to create? '

BOTH Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Europe as a whole avoided disaster today.

The Free Democrats, the junior partner in Angela Merkel's coalition government, were trounced in a state election in Berlin.

Photographers caught an awkward moment when he greeted German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a meeting of European leaders in Berlin last week.

Mr Strauss-Kahn had been scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday, but that meeting has now been cancelled, reports say.

When Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government came to power in 2005, ministers promised to do something about this.

In Paris, Angela Merkel is accused of turning Germany into greater Switzerland as she forever runs scared of voters.

In fact, Indians were the only people sampled who rated Mr Bush more highly than they did Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, visited the island on Sunday, a sign of how seriously European governments are taking the disease.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, wants the Berlin summit to issue a ringing declaration about the values and successes of the EU.

Many German bosses, say those close to them, have lost faith in the ability of Angela Merkel's government to steer Europe out of trouble.

In Germany the new chancellor, Angela Merkel, is under fire for suggesting changing the financing of it health system.

Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, called for new rules for the euro zone, allowing errant members to be excluded if necessary.

That strips German Chancellor Angela Merkel of her strongest ally and the Franco-German alliance crumbles.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor, has twice dithered, arguing about conditions for a rescue even as the flames took hold.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided the answer was an antique beer stein .

Mr Loescher and Mr Hambrecht chose a tour of China by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, as a good time to amplify their complaints.

Audi kicks off its 100th birthday celebrations with a ceremony to be attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Col Gaddafi's speech was "very, very appalling" and "amounted to him declaring war on his own people" .

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, in particular, is sceptical about the idea of borrowing and spending as a way to recovery.

As recently as this week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that she would favour only a temporary increase to 700bn euros.

The discord has been most apparent the last two days when German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday the euro is in danger.

When Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, meets Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, the atmosphere can be chilly.

German chancellor Angela Merkel is familiar with Cold War diplomacy, but on Wednesday she had her first encounter with Cool Biz diplomacy.

Angela Merkel tried to get into the spirit of things by declaring that multiculturalism has "failed, absolutely failed. "

In a telephone call to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the president called for "resolute action" .

Germany's economy is booming, but Angela Merkel's government has become a hapless prisoner of its own fearfulness.

Polish leaders have also made friends with Germany, seeing in Angela Merkel's leadership an opportunity for a powerful friendship.

The Christian Democrats' leader, Angela Merkel, will remain as chancellor, but will form a new coalition with the liberal Free Democrats.

Next he swept into a meeting room where German Chancellor Angela Merkel waited.

President Barack Obama had rung German Chancellor Angela Merkel twice to stress the need for a headline-grabbing package.

His first emergency budget in July followed a telephone call from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.

Leading US magazine Time has put German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the cover of its latest edition and acclaimed her as "Frau Europa" .

Repeated attempts by Angela Merkel, the polonophile German chancellor, to build a strong relationship with Poland were rebuffed.

"We want to tell people that their savings are safe, " Angela Merkel, chancellor, said at an unscheduled press conference yesterday.

In her New Year's address to the nation, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged she expects turbulence in 2012.

The defeat of Angela Merkel's coalition in 2013 came as no surprise following the German banking crisis of the previous year.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is lobbying European countries that have large budget deficits to follow suit.

The latest co-ordination proposals by German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy are of the same category.

BERLIN Jan 15 (Reuters) - A German government spokesman denied market rumours on Friday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was to resign.

Three days earlier Angela Merkel's coalition government got a drubbing in state elections in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schroeder had decided to mothball the reactors by around 2020.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced a three-month moratorium on the extension of the operation periods for German nuclear plants.

Is not the chancellor, Angela Merkel, the first to declare that "if the euro fails, Europe will fail" ?

But German chancellor Angela Merkel opposed a joint EU-wide guarantee; each country had to take care of its own banks.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy hold their first meeting of the year in Berlin on Monday.

The reports coincided with the visit to China of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has spoken along these lines recently.

Germany's Christian Democratic chancellor, Angela Merkel, ran on an economic-reform ticket.

He was speaking in Beijing alongside the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

While Angela Merkel is justified in her insistence, it is driving her in the wrong direction.

Obama spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel by phone this week, with the two agreeing to 'differentiate' their 'exit strategies. '

In 2012 Germany's Angela Merkel and her fellow euro-zone leaders will set out the sketches for that design.

Elsewhere in the EU, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a worldwide tax on financial markets.

He spoke at a joint news conference with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who urged a prompt withdrawal of Russian troops.

Germany's Angela Merkel said aid should be given on a "case by case" basis, as eastern countries had "very different" needs.

This provision is seen as a victory for Germany and its Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would temporarily close seven nuclear power centers while energy policy is reconsidered.

Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and the rest have gone into summits promising to get ahead of the financial markets.

Mr Koch, a one-time rival of Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, had also been touted as a possible finance minister in Berlin.

'Exchange rates should be as realistic as possible, ' German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters Tuesday.

By Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was declaring solidarity with the U. S. and other nations.

Germany's Angela Merkel says that 60-odd years of European integration is under threat.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, rejects a eurozone bond.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel struck an upbeat tone ahead of the meeting.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is also expected to approve Mr Draghi's candidacy, according to well-placed officials in Berlin.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that she and the German government expect that a U.

German chancellor Angela Merkel says that "there is a lot in favour of a European candidate being put forward" .

ON THE campaign trail, Angela Merkel tells voters to think positively.

Mr. Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had pressured him to drop the idea.

Pro-European Germans say that Chancellor Angela Merkel believes that theirs has become just another normal European country.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor, says that reopening the treaties is no taboo.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is not believed to be keen.

For all their banker-bashing rhetoric, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are likely to push ahead with mild deregulation.

It was difficult for Angela Merkel's government to accept the need for a major fiscal stimulus.

Renaming Eurobonds as stability bonds, the green paper is almost an act of insubordination against Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor.

On Wednesday Angela Merkel, chancellor, hosts a summit of business leaders, trade unionists and economists to discuss the downturn.

And, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that in these difficult hours her thoughts were with the relatives of the victims.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor, grudgingly agreed to a series of progressively larger bail-outs of weaker euro members.

Early results from a regional election in Germany suggest another setback for the Chancellor Angela Merkel.

SOON after Angela Merkel became Germany's chancellor in 2005, she met George Bush in Washington to open a "new chapter" in relations.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and German chancellor, Angela Merkel, announced the dramatic proposals after a two-hour mini-summit.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Mueller's Nobel win was "a wonderful sign" 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has appealed to her party to build a stronger political union, step by step.

Deutsche Bank AG and Banco Santander SA led financial shares lower as German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government rattled investors.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is defending Germany's decision to cut spending by one hundred billion dollars over four years.

Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor and the most influential voice in Europe today, should tackle these prejudices head-on.

British prime minister David Cameron, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel issued a joint statement along similar lines.

Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, rushed to Berlin last night to iron out differences with Angela Merkel, German chancellor.

Although Chancellor Angela Merkel firmly endorsed the decision, even her own conservative party's foreign policy experts voiced disgust.

The president spoke after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Dresden.

French newspaper headlines highlighted a rift between their president and German chancellor Angela Merkel.

Chancellor Angela Merkel speaking in Berlin urged undecided voters to support her centre-right Christian Democrats.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that Europe could be living through its toughest hour since World War II.

But the conservative led coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel baulked earlier this year at legislation to even things up .

German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed the plan as a step toward market-orientated growth.

He met with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Dresden. Later they visited the remains of the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald.

In other fields, US economist Joseph Stiglitz, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange were on the list.

Until recently, Angela Merkel reiterated day-in day-out that there shall be no eurozone bond.

Angela Merkel, chancellor, insisted on new rules to deal with fiscal profligacy and future bail-outs.

The centre-right Angela Merkel has just won the German election.

Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, demanded "truth and clarity about everything that has happened" .

To judge from this week's summit between Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy, the answer is no.

China may offer rescue funds to Europe, Premier Wen Jiabao said after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday.

Angela Merkel wasted little time throwing a bucket of cold water on calls for the creation of common European bonds.

Angela Merkel, German chancellor, is due to lead a meeting in Berlin to discuss the takeover plans today.

Mr Obama has made numerous personal phone calls to European leaders, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, in particular.

And for the first time, the Christian Democratic Party of Angela Merkel may lose.

That's what Chancellor Angela Merkel's government and much of corporate Germany plan to do.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will make an appearanceinMondays de as well -- in a bathing suit.

This afternoon Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, expressed her outrage at the killing spree.

This was predictable: Germany has a female chancellor, Angela Merkel.

He recently accused Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, of wanting to "rebuild German imperial power" .

Chancellor Angela Merkel and her senior colleagues have prime responsibility, but "President" van Rompuy has been invisible.

That would hugely change the make-up and policies of Angela Merkel's government.

The toymaker Mattel recognised this when they introduced an Angela Merkel Barbie, complete with black trouser suit, this year.

Angela Merkel says she will not be pushed around by the markets.

Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, recently argued that the European Union needs new rules to regulate what the funds may buy.

Summit co-host German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it corresponds to the thinking among NATO members.

German chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday waded into the row over Google's plans to build a massive digital library.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has planted her conservative camp firmly in the political center.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's objection, that "treaties don't allow it" , is not insurmountable.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel angers China by holding historic talks with the Dalai Lama in Berlin.

A solid majority of German voters oppose Chancellor Angela Merkel's commitment to come to Greece's rescue.

If anyone can speak for Europe and provide leadership on the need for reciprocity in trading relations with China, it is Angela Merkel.

The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn had gone down 48 hours earlier, and Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, was still absorbing the news.

Where tragedy turns into farce is the string of policy proposals by Angela Merkel, German chancellor.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor, held a domestic summit in Berlin to discuss the economic situation.

Led by Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, all 16 countries which make up the euro zone have agreed a rescue plan for their ailing neighbor.

A high-wage country with few natural resources cannot afford sub-par universities, as Chancellor Angela Merkel often says.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, once the euro zone's "Madame Non, " led a push to assemble the new Greek bailout program.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany wouldtemportarilytemporarily close 7 nuclear power centers while energy policy is reconsidered.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has supported Guttenberg.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of Europe's biggest economy, disagrees.

Angela Merkel, German chancellor, respected the central bank's freedom to decide for itself.

'There are hardly any countries that have said already they will cooperate with the EFSF, ' German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday the EU faced an "existential" crisis.

A meeting on Sunday between Mr Strauss-Kahn and German chancellor Angela Merkel was cancelled.

He will also join a meeting of European leaders hosted during the weekend by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

Of the big European countries, Angela Merkel's Germany has been the firmest advocate of ostracising dictators.

Seven state elections, and the ongoing euro-zone crisis, will test Angela Merkel's government this year.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor, has been driven to assure German voters publicly that their savings are safe.

But Angela Merkel of Germany and Nicolas Sarkozy of France thought differently.

On Wednesday, Mr. Bush discussed different aspects of the Iran crisis with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

After a vicious row with Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, Mr Sarkozy agreed to include the entire EU.

More than 20, 000 German academics wrote to Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday complaining he was still in his job.

That's why it is good that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are taking the lead.

This year, Chancellor Angela Merkel became the first German leader to attend the ceremony in Paris.

ANGELA MERKEL, the German chancellor, did her best to revive Germany's European spirit this week.

This almost-unthinkable result is a big blow to Angela Merkel, the chancellor and CDU leader, who has lost the party's crown jewel.

Chancellor Angela Merkel must now dare to make that choice, clearly and openly.

President Barack Obama has also spoken to German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the debt crisis.

Angela Merkel, a more self-effacing character than Mr Schrö der, has sent mixed signals.

Angela Merkel was Wednesday re-elected as Germany's chancellor to lead the country's first center-right coalition government in 11 years.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who leads the CDU, must now promote a new generation of leaders.

Indeed, Angela Merkel's Frauenbonus has made her at times the most popular of post-war chancellors .

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she still supports the use of nuclear power but has ordered a review of safety procedures.

But Chancellor Angela Merkel reversed that decision last fall.

Its chancellor, Angela Merkel, said Germany should set an example of budgetary discipline to other euro-zone countries.

Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel wants to control banks' size.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel isn't playing around, either.

This may not be Angela Merkel's own personal preference.

WHEN Angela Merkel cares about an issue she does not give a speech.

The slumping fortunes of Angela Merkel's CDU in Hamburg indicate a rough road to the federal elections in 2013.

It's not because I pretend to know what Germany's Angela Merkel or Great Britain's Mr. Cameron is going to do next.

More specifically, it wants gold stars from Germany's Angela Merkel.

Angela Merkel is right: the euro is in danger.

Angela Merkel lost another political ally when Ole von Beust, the mayor of Hamburg, resigned.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel echoed the words of U. S. President George Bush.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany called the opening to Russia "an historic new chapter" in relations with NATO and the West.

Before the meeting, President Obama publicly pleaded with Angela Merkel to change her policies.

Germany seemed to signal last year that it would take a firmer line when Chancellor Angela Merkel met the Dalai Lama in Berlin.

Thus Angela Merkel, after meeting the Pope last month.

One has to feel some sympathy for Angela Merkel.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel heads a center-right coalition government that is committed to nuclear power.

Given Angela Merkel's central role, perhaps we should not have been surprised at the vacillation.

Angela Merkel (Angela Merkel) F, in July 1954 was born in Hamburg, Germany.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said Merkel attention to this incident, the school will release the results until after the comment.

The good news is that the EU now has an emerging leader. Chancellor Angela Merkel is setting the agenda.

On April 3rd and 4th Mr Sarkozy and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel will jointly host a summit to mark NATO's 60th anniversary.

At number four is Angela Merkel.

Last week, Angela Merkel, German chancellor, ruled it out every day.

These are uncommon but not unknown (Angela Merkel, the chancellor, led one at federal level until last October).

Chancellor Angela Merkel is defending Germany's decision to cut spending by $100, 000, 000, 000 over 4 years.

Little has gone right for the liberals since they joined Angela Merkel's coalition in 2009, after winning a record 15% of the vote.

Angela Merkel's clear plan for closer union will not appeal to all, but there is no substance to the British government's alternat

To save the single currency, Angela Merkel must take on her own country's economic establishment

Angela Merkel and David Cameron are due to meet on Friday to discuss the eurozone crisis further. Photograph: Getty Images

It would be good for Germany and the world if Angela Merkel had a higher profile

Angela Merkel says new year will 'undoubtedly' be harder than the last as eurozone crisis hangover prompts more austerity

Standoff deepens after claims Angela Merkel will not allow UK 'to get away' with refusal to back financial transactions tax