Tag: germnay

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 04:01 UTC

  Merkel queen of the hill: strong support for stance on heavily indebted countries

  

  Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has nudged higher, an opinion poll showed, but the weakness of two smaller parties highlights the trouble she may face building another centre-right coalition after Germany's 2013 election.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 - 03:11 UTC

  Banker launches another challenging controversial book with Germany as the “Euro-zone hostage”

  

  Former German central banker Thilo Sarrazin, whose musings on Muslim immigrants sparked outrage in 2010 has triggered fresh controversy with a book that paints Germany as the Euro zone's hostage, forced to pay out vast sums to atone for the Holocaust.