BERLIN (Reuters) -The European Union must be prepared to enact more sanctions against Russia if the situation in and around eastern Ukraine or on the Belarus-Poland border escalates, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
German Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz on Wednesday hailed his Social Democrats' new so-called "traffic light" coalition with the Greens and liberal Free Democrats as a groundbreaking alliance that he said will modernise the country.
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BERLIN Centrist Armin Laschet was elected chairman of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) on Saturday, succeeding Angela Merkel and putting him on course to run as the conservative party’s candidate for chancellor in federal elections in September.
Laschet, the premier of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia – Germany’s most populous – won a runoff vote against Friedrich Merz, securing 521 votes against 466 for his arch-conservative rival, according to a ballot of 1,001 party delegates.
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15 Jan 2021 / 04:15 H. Daily mortality per million currently exceeds that of US Total German death toll at 43,881 Country tightened lockdown in mid-December Bild reports Merkel wants mega-lockdown (Adds Merkel calling for very fast action )
By Andreas Rinke and Caroline Copley
BERLIN, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Germany recorded a new record number of deaths from the coronavirus on Thursday, prompting calls for an even tighter lockdown after the country emerged relatively unscathed in 2020.
Chancellor Angela Merkel wanted a mega-lockdown , mass-selling newspaper Bild reported, shutting down the country almost completely for fear of the fast-spreading variant of the virus first detected in Britain.
She was considering measures including shutting down both local and long-distance public transport, though such steps had not yet been decided, Bild said. However, state officials were resisting tighter measures, state sources told Reuters.