Tag: Frank-Walter Steinmeier

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Date for Angela Merkel's exit, after next year's September 26 elections

  

  Germany will go to the polls to elect a new parliament and chancellor on September 26 next year as Angela Merkel's looming retirement leaves the country's political future wide open.

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Germany asks the Polish people for forgiveness on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II

  

  Germany’s president expressed on Sunday deep remorse for the suffering his nation inflicted on Poland and the rest of Europe during World War II, warning of the dangers of nationalism as world leaders gathered Sunday in the country where the war started at incalculable costs.

• Wednesday, November 1st 2017 - 08:17 UTC

  Germany marks the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation

  

  A special religious service is being held in the German town of Wittenberg to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. On this day, 31 October, in 1517, Martin Luther is said to have nailed 95 theses to the door of All Saints' Church in the town.

• Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 06:55 UTC

  Germany warns Brexit could lead to the European block's disintegration

  

  If the United Kingdom votes to leave the EU next week, the move could ultimately lead to the bloc's disintegration, Germany's foreign minister has warned. Frank-Walter Steinmeier was speaking near Berlin after talks with his French counterpart, Jean-Marc Ayrault.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 06:40 UTC

  Germany to declassify documents on the secretive Dignity Colony in Chile

  

  Victims of a secretive German colony in Chile hope that Germany's decision to declassify documents will help shine light on human rights abuses committed there. For three decades beginning in 1961, the enclave of Colonia Dignidad, or Dignity Colony, was the site of torture, slavery and child abuse.

• Thursday, August 20th 2015 - 07:07 UTC

  Two lady leaders under fire, meet in Brazil hoping to recover ground

  

  Chancellor Angela Merkel, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and several other high-ranking German politicians touched down in Brazil's capital, Brasilia late Wednesday. The German delegation set off on its 12-hour flight immediately after a Bundestag vote approving a new bailout package for Greece.

• Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 04:26 UTC

  German parliament joins discussion on Euro rescue plan

  

  Germany's political opposition has succeeded in ensuring plans to enhance Europe's bailout fund be brought to a vote in parliament on Wednesday. The decision came after the Bundestag's plenary session rejected the opposition's demands for an open debate just Friday.