Mainz (Germany), Dec 7: German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Monday for movement by India and China at the world climate summit.

Speaking in a special news broadcast on Germany's ZDF public television, she said big emerging economies had not offered enough.

"India and China in particular must offer more," she said, noting that the US had already accepted the objective of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by 2050.

Berlin, Dec 3 :Germany is to assist Brazil in staging the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel after a meeting in Berlin Thursday with visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The Germans are to provide similar help in getting Brazil ready for the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil.

Germany is Brazil's principal trading partner in Europe, with two-way trade worth nearly 18 billion euros (27 billion dollars).

Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended Saturday her new government's plans to cut taxes - rejecting a warning by the government's panel of economic advisers that it would achieve little.

She told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "We knew from the start that tax cuts would not be 100-per-cent self-financing."

Merkel was referring to the argument that tax cuts stimulate economic activity, thus leading to higher state revenues.

Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended Saturday her new government's plans to cut taxes - rejecting a warning by the government's panel of economic advisers that it would achieve little.

She told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "We knew from the start that tax cuts would not be 100-per-cent self-financing."

Merkel was referring to the argument that tax cuts stimulate economic activity, thus leading to higher state revenues.

Paris - Chancellor Angela Merkel is traveling to Paris Wednesday to commemorate the soldiers who fell in World War I - the first ever German head of government to do so.

On Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy had traveled to Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with the German chancellor.

Sarkozy and Merkel will together place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe, and each of the leaders is scheduled to deliver a brief address.

Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that she expects the country's economic situation and the consequences of the global economic crisis to worsen in the coming year.

Citing the prospect of rising unemployment, Merkel said "The problems will first get bigger, before they can be improved."

"Germany is facing a test such as it has never had since reunification," the chancellor said at the beginning of her second term in government.

Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a personal account of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, which she called the "luckiest day of recent German history," in a video broadcast released Saturday.

The chancellor, who grew up in former East Germany, said the news came at the end of a regular Thursday.

Berlin, Nov. 6 : German Chancellor Angela Merkel has revealed that she was not part of the frenzied East German crowd that poured through the newly opened border to witness the historic fall of the Berlin wall, instead she was taking her scheduled sauna bath.

On the night of 9 November 1989, after work, Merkel headed to the sauna with a female friend, as she did every Thursday.

"The atmosphere had been tense for days, I thought something was going to happen, and had heard the announcement on television that the borders would open," the Guardian quoted Merkel, as saying.

"But it was Thursday, and Thursday was my sauna day so that''s where I went – in the same communist high-rise where we always went," she added.

Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel departed on a trip to the US on Monday, where she was due to address a joint session of the US Congress, an historic opportunity granted to few foreign leaders. The rare invitation, extended to around 100 world leaders in American history, was meant to mark the end of the Cold War when the Berlin Wall toppled on November 9, 1989.

However, Merkel has indicated she will also tell Congress it is time for the US to take on a more active role in reducing the greenhouse gases blamed for climate change.

Washington  - The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is giving German Chancellor Angela Merkel a chance to talk to US legislators about an issue close to Europe's heart: climate change.

Merkel on Tuesday will have the historic opportunity granted to few foreign leaders to address a joint session of the US Congress.

Erfurt, Germany  - A last-minute crisis nearly robbed Chancellor Angela Merkel's party of power in one of Germany's states on Friday - before legislators in Thuringia appointed a Merkel supporter as state premier.

Christine Lieberknecht of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won 55 out of 87 votes cast in a secret ballot in the state legislature in Erfurt. Though not the first woman state premier in Germany, Lieberknecht, 51, is the only female currently leading any of the 16 states.

Warsaw  - Some 28 per cent of Poles would back German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the European Union presidency, said a survey Friday in the daily Rzeczpospolita.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair got some 17 per cent of support among the Polish public, according to the telephone survey conducted by GfK Polonia. The newspaper didn't indicate the size of the survey's sample.

Berlin - Germany's parliament elected Chancellor Angela Merkel to a new four-year term on Wednesday, a month after her victory in a general election.

Merkel received 323 votes in the 622-member lower house, or Bundestag, where her conservative coalition enjoys a comfortable majority.

The chancellor and her 16-member cabinet of Christian Democrats, the Bavarian Christian Social Union and pro-business Free Democrats were due to be sworn in later in the day.

Berlin  - Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) approved the new government coalition deal with the Free Democrats (FDP) at a party conference on Monday, paving the way for a new centre-right government to take office later this week.

Merkel told her party that the proposals agreed with the FDP would work to counter the economic crisis, and warned that the country's future remained unpredictable.

Berlin  - Chancellor Angela Merkel presented her new coalition agreement on Saturday, saying it showed that Germany could look with confidence into the future.

"I believe we will be a good team," she told a joint press conference with Guido Westerwelle, head of her new political partner, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP).

The chancellor's Christian Democrats, its Bavarian sister party CSU and the FDP cemented their coalition after marathon talks that ended in the early hours of Saturday.

Berlin  - German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and her new political partners have agreed to the broad outline of the next government after negotiations stretching into the early hours of the morning, coalition sources said on Friday.

Merkel held talks with the Free Democrats' (FDP) leader Guido Westerwelle and Horst Seehofer of the CDU's Bavarian Christian Social (CSU) sister party, hammering out details of the new government charter.

Berlin  - Germany's new political partners faced a daunting "to do" list as they entered the final two days of coalition talks on Thursday, with key open issues including tax policy and ministerial appointments.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) aim to finalize their new government charter by the weekend and appoint the new coalition next week, after winning a majority in last month's general election.

Berlin  - German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Friday Berlin's historic Neues Museum (New Museum) seven decades after it was virtually reduced to rubble by World War II air raids and following 11 years of restoration.

The makeover of the 1855 building marks another stage in the marathon reconstruction of the cluster of five museums comprising Berlin's neoclassical museum island, which has been one of the world's biggest cultural renovation projects.

Berlin  - The tone sharpened as Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats launched into the second week of coalition talks with the Free Democrats (FDP) on Monday, attempting to balance empty state coffers with tax cut pledges.

Both sides accused the other of refusing to budge from their positions on tax policy, ahead of a meeting between the parties' finance experts.

Nevertheless the head of the committee, Thomas de Maiziere of the CDU, said he hoped they could reach agreement by Wednesday, when the party leaders next review progress.

Leipzig, Germany - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday US President Barack Obama has opened "a window of opportunity."

Responding in the eastern city of Leipzig to the news Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, she said, "He has managed in a short time to establish a new tone and a willingness to talk worldwide.

"We should all support him. He has opened a window of opportunity."

She said his nuclear-free aims were a target that ought to be achievable in the years to come.