Section: The Local (Germany)
Merkel-Hollande visit ‘gives hope for peace’ says Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said a new peace plan proposed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French leader Francois Hollande, which will be presented to Moscow on Friday, has raised hopes for an end to the fighting with Kiev’s pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: The Local...
Merkel and Hollande to visit Kiev and Moscow
French President Francois Hollande said he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel would visit Kiev later Thursday, before heading to Moscow, in a fresh push to find a solution to the raging conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The Local...
‘No military solution to Ukraine’ says Biden
In an interview with Munich-based daily Süddeutsche Zeitung published on Thursday, American Vice President Joe Biden discussed possible solutions to the Ukraine-Russia conflict ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s U.S. visit. …read more Source: The Local...
Obama advisor denies plan for Ukraine weapons
White House advisor Ben Rhodes told CNN on Monday night that the US has no plans to deliver weapons to Ukraine “in the near future”, while Chancellor Angela Merkel is the “most important partner” in the crisis. …read more Source: The Local...
Merkel calls for Hungary to protect civil rights
Chancellor Angela Merkel used a visit to Budapest on Monday to challenge right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban to end his crackdown on domestic dissenters and join other European nations in facing the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The Local...
Ukraine, ebola push Germany to top of foreign policy
Foreign policy think-tank the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) gave Germany top marks in its annual check-up of EU member states released on Thursday. …read more Source: The Local...
Russia may declare 1989 reunification illegal
More than 25 years after the Berlin Wall’s fall, Russian lawmakers are mulling a proposal to condemn West Germany’s 1990 “annexation” of East Germany as Moscow’s answer to Western denunciation of its seizure of Crimea. …read more Source: The Local...
Merkel phones Putin over Ukraine violence
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Sunday to “put pressure” on Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin separatists to end a recent upsurge in violence. …read more Source: The Local...
Merkel offers Russia free-trade agreement
Germany would be prepared to negotiate a free-trade agreement between the European Union and Russia as a way out of the deadlocked Ukraine conflict, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. …read more Source: The Local...
Ministers agree Ukraine weapons reductions
The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine, Sergei Lavrov and Pavel Klimkin, agreed at a meeting in Berlin on Wednesday evening that heavy weapons would be withdrawn from front lines in eastern Ukraine . …read more Source: The Local...
