Tag: Germany

President Obama assured thousands at Berlin's Tiergarten in 2008 that their wall had come down because Ã¢â¬Åthere is no challenge that is too great for a world that stands as one. (AP File)

Obama’s delusions dispelled? Well, we can hope for change

Michael Barone · September 8, 2014 9:00 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for an election campaign in Eberswalde, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. Merkel said in her weekly podcast Saturday that 75 years after Germany attacked Poland which led to World War II and the killing of six million Jews, it remains a top priority for the country to make Jews here feel safe. She expressed worries that there is not a single Jewish institution in the country without police protection. (AP Photo/dpa/Bernd von Jutrczenka)

National Security

Merkel : Germany no place for anti-Semitism

Washington Examiner · September 6, 2014 11:32 am

In the real world, obstacles and risks exist. These obstacles and risk show up in the prices of some goods and services. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

The Export-Import Bank and the German model

Timothy P. Carney · September 5, 2014 3:31 pm

A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms.

Germany to provide funds to Nazis’ child victims

David Rising · September 4, 2014 2:26 pm

Court halts ridesharing service Uber in Germany

Washington Examiner · September 2, 2014 11:21 am

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2009 file picture a German armored infantry vehicle Dingo takes part in a combat training in Letzlingen, eastern Germany. Germany joins other European countries who have pledged to provide arms to the Kurds fighting the Islamic State group that has swept into northern Iraq in recent months. In total, the shipments will include 8,000 G36 assault rifles and the same number of G3 rifles, as well as ammunition; 200 Panzerfaust 3 and 30 MILAN anti-tank systems; and five heavily armored Dingo infantry vehicles. Chancellor Angela Merkel has told German lawmakers Monday Sept.1, 2014 that arming Kurdish fighters battling Islamic extremists in Iraq wasn't an easy decision but is in her country's interest. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz,File)

Merkel: Arming Kurds in Germany’s interest

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2014 5:26 pm

FILE - In this May 15, 2009 file photo, German chancellor Angela Merkel greets well-wishers, in Detmold, Germany. Ordinary Germans are spooked about the future. Businesses see black clouds on the horizon. And an economy that has been the envy of Europe is already showing cracks, shrinking last quarter under the strain of conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere. It might seem like enough to put any leader into trouble. But Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity remains sky-high _ with nobody in sight to touch her. (AP Photo/dpa, Franz-Peter Tschauner, File)

German economic fears growing but Merkel strong

David Rising · August 29, 2014 9:29 am

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2010 filepicture a worker closes a Germanwings passenger jet at the airport in Cologne, Germany. A German union representing pilots says it is planning a new round of strikes in a long-running dispute over wages and early retirement benefits. The Vereinigung Cockpit union says in a statement it will order pilots of Germanwings, a subsidiary of Germany's biggest airline Lufthansa, to go on strike Friday if further negotiations on Thursday fail to achieve their goals. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Germanwings pilots to go on strike Friday

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2014 1:07 pm

UN scientist with Ebola in Germany for treatment

David Rising · August 27, 2014 1:41 pm

Germany plans to tighten EU migration rules

Kirsten Grieshaber · August 27, 2014 1:14 pm

S.C.-based Sonoco packaging acquires German firm

S.C.-based Sonoco packaging acquires German firm

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2014 1:30 pm

Klaus Wowereit, Mayor of Germany's capital Berlin speaks during a news conference at the city hall in Berlin, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Charismatic Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, whose reputation has taken a beating in recent years by delays and cost overruns in the construction of the German capital's new international airport, says he will step down by the end of the year. Wowereit told reporters Tuesday he would resign Dec. 11 after more than 13 years in office. Berlin's first openly gay mayor, Wowereit helped turn the city into a top tourist destination. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin mayor to resign by end of year

David Rising · August 26, 2014 12:33 pm