German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L), President of France Nicolas Sarkozy (C) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso Eurozone leaders have used their New Year’s messages to warn of more economic crisis for the year ahead, as many eurozone countries expect recession in 2012. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she expects more difficulty in 2012, but she does “everything”... 

Although Germany and Russia have developed into modern democracies with free-market systems, NATO still fears the revival of the former Nazi and Soviet states, says Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin, Russia’s former Permanent Representative to NATO, told officers of the Aerospace Forces in the restricted area of Krasnoznamensk that no matter what type of political system Russia has the... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Newly released figures in Germany indicate that the European country’s debt exceeded two trillion dollars at the end of this year’s third quarter. According to provisional official data published on Tuesday, Europe’s largest economy had a debt totaling 2.028 trillion euros (USD 2.65 trillion) at the end of the third quarter of this year. A statement... 

Norman Paech, a retired German professor and politician Former German lawmaker Norman Paech says any Israeli venture to launch a military strike against Iran would spell the end of Tel Aviv regime. A war with Iran would be different from the one with Gaza; it would mean the downfall of Zionist Israel, Norman Paech wrote on the German-based daily Jung Welt. Paech said that in a study released on 12... 

A man from Dortmund has filed a complaint against Pope Benedikt XVI for not wearing a seat belt in his “Popemobile” during his last trip to Germany. Johannes Christian Sundermann, a lawyer from Unna in North Rhine Westphalia, filed a legal complaint against the German-born pope formerly known as Joseph Ratzinger for not wearing his seat belt on several occasions “for more than one hour... 

On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold the troubled sovereign debt from Greece, Italy, and Spain must accept part of the cost of their bailout by writing off some... 

Talks between Merkel and Cameron lay bare fundamental differences over plan for euro. An anti-British backlash gathered pace in Germany yesterday as David Cameron and Angela Merkel struggled to disguise the gulf between them on how to tackle the eurozone crisis. The Prime Minister returned from talks in Berlin with the German leader having made little progress in agreeing emergency action to stop... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday called on her country’s allies, specially the US, to fully exploit diplomatic efforts over Iran’s nuclear issue, rather than discussing the possibility of military solution. In an interview with German newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung’s weekend edition, Merkel said that diplomatic solutions to Iran’s nuclear issue “have not exhausted”... 

Late night calls: Barack Obama made contact with several European leaders to demand faster action Barack Obama has read the riot act to the leaders of several European countries – saying more dramatic action is needed to avert a eurozone meltdown. The U.S. President made telephone calls to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano... 

Debt crisis sets markets in turmoil amid reports of talks about the break up of the eurozone. Reports that Germany and France have begun talks to break up the eurozone amid fears that Italy will be too big to rescue. Fears that Europe’s sovereign debt crisis was spiralling out of control have intensified as political chaos in Athens and Rome, and looming recession, created panic on world markets. Reports... 

Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle Germany’s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has warned against “dangerous” consequences of debating about a military strike against Iran, insisting that such efforts would strengthen Tehran’s standing rather than weakening it. “I warn against floating the idea of military options,” Westerwelle told Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper. “These... 

A German "Dolphin" submarine docks at the port of Haifa in Israel. The German government is threatening to halt the delivery of a submarine capable of firing nuclear warheads in protest of the Israeli government’s recent decision to build new homes in the Arab part of Jerusalem. Earlier this year, SPIEGEL reported that Germany’s subsidized submarine sales program is linked to... 

Most of us forget our dreams when we wake up - but scientists from German's Max Planck institute have demonstrated that it could be possible to 'read' and even record what people are dreaming about. Most of us remember only a tiny fraction of our dreams – but that could soon change. Scientists predict that we could soon use computers to ‘see’ what we have dreamed about... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel German Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced anger over the results of a survey which indicates a growing anti-Israeli sentiment among Europeans. Merkel warned against the rise of anti-Israeli sentiments across Europe and lashed out at findings of an opinion poll which showed 60 percent of Europeans saw Tel Aviv the largest threat to the world’s security, IRNA cited... 

A hacker group says Berlin may have software to spy on citizens. A number of other German states have followed Bavaria in confirming the use of a controversial software program to spy on people through their computers. The German justice minister has demanded an investigation. Several additional German states have admitted to deploying spyware in order to investigate serious criminal offenses, according...