Walter Steinmeier News

Amid the squabbling among European Union member states over who will become the bloc's first president and foreign minister, the one country that has puzzled diplomats in Brussels is Germany.

Russia does not want confrontation with the West but will hit back if attacked, Kremlin leader Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday, a day before EU leaders meet to draft a response to Moscowa TMs actions in Georgia.

His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam sent a congratulatory message to the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr Horst Kohler, yesterday, on the occasion of the country's Reunification Day.

Germany's Social Democrats thought their election result would be bad - but not this bad.

The first results are in from the German elections, and it seems clear that Chancellor Merkel has once again gotten the upperhand.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier wrap up their campaigns in the next 48 hours for an election that will determine whether she can cut taxes, push deregulation and extend the life of nuclear-power plants.

IN THE run-up to this weekend's general election in Germany, both Chancellor Angela Merkel and her main rival, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, are taking credit for saving Opel from bankruptcy and its four factories in Germany from closure.

BERLIN // Last Sunday, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister campaigning to become chancellor in the federal election on Sunday, wooed the immigrant vote by visiting a Turkish family in Berlin to celebrate the Sugar Festival with them.

Election posters for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and rival Frank-Walter Steinmeier are seen in Berlin.

German political parties held their final campaign rallies before Sunday's national election, mindful of new warnings by Islamic militants that they would exact retribution for the country's presence in Afghanistan.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been offering voters an unprecedented glimpse into her reassuringly dull private life, including an account of how she goes shopping at a normal supermarket.

There are more important issues at hand for foreign dignitaries in town for the Group of 20 summit than what's happening at a local high school.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has welcomed a landmark UN Security Council resolution aimed at ridding the planet of nuclear weapons.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is presented with a cabbage at an election rally in Heide, northern Germany, yesterday enlarge A slow, but steady, tightening of the poll numbers in Germany is threatening Angela Merkel's hopes of forming a new centre-right coalition, and could, if it accelerates, even complicate her ambition to serve a second term ...

GERMANY'S current parliamentary election campaign looks like a front-running contender for the title of the most boring in the history of the Federal Republic.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is fighting an uphill battle in his attempt to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor.

New threats by al-Qaida and fierce criticism of a German-ordered airstrike that killed dozens have pushed Germany's mission in Afghanistan to the forefront of this country's national election campaign.

A new generation of German voters, some born after the fall of the Berlin Wall, are rejecting mainstream parties that have dominated post-war politics and giving their support to new groups on the fringes.

Germany applauds changes to US missile defense plans >> Posted By Progressive 11 hours, 21 minutes ago in News > Commenting on President Obama's announcement that the United States would not continue to pursue its missile defence plans for Central Europe in their current form, Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier issued the following ...

The German federal government welcomes the decision of the United States to scrap missile defense system in Eastern Europe, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday.