Social Democratic Party of Germany News

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Tuesday for the U.S., China and India to make substantive pledges of action against global warming in order to prevent the failure of next month's climate summit in Copenhagen.

The Berlin Wall, which had divided Germany for over a quarter century, had been torn down, unleashing huge questions about Germany's destiny and its place in the wider world.

The 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9 will coincide with other significant 20th-century anniversaries for Germany, some far darker: Nov 9, 1918 - As defeat approached in World War One, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and Social Democrat Philip Scheidemann declared Germany's first republic from a window of the Berlin ...

It's an eventful autumn in Germany. Besides Oktoberfest, there has been a general election and events commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall's demise.

Germany's defense minister has called for clarification of Germany's status in Afghanistan, after a contoversial airstrike ordered by a German commander raised the question of whether the country is at war.

Germany's government had heavily backed the decision by GM to sell its European Opel subsidiary to a consortium led by Canadian car parts maker Magna.

Imagine waking up one fine Sunday morning to learn that they are laying down barbed wire in your city.

"And German unity is... linked with Europe as a whole. We in Germany are writing but one of the chapters," he added.

Gordon Brown in heated exchange with German politician over predecessor's chances of becoming EU President AP Gordon Brown joins European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, below right, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, below left, and Maltese Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi at the opening of a two-day EU Summit in Brussels yesterday Tony ...

Wolfgang Arndt suffered the full force of the East German state's attempts to destroy his personality.

Concerns have risen with the inauguration of the new government that Germany will cut back on its commitments on international development.

Germany's new finance minister, the veteran conservative politician Wolfgang Schauble, moved swiftly Sunday to assert his power and tell his compatriots and the world that the finances of the largest European economy were dire and would take years to mend.

The new government in Berlin includes two very frank men whose relationship with reality indicates that Chancellor Angela Merkel now sees the necessity of a more frontal approach to Germany's huge economic problems and imprecise international role.

A combination of file photos shows the proposed new German coalition government.

Thilo Sarrazin, a Bundesbank director who criticized Turkish and Arab immigrants in a recent interview, has been punished by his employer and may lose his job.

Somehow it's become a meme among the historically ignorant on the right-who have totally driven themselves into hysterical frenzies of ignorant hatred for Obama .

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was elected for a second term in a resounding victory in the 27 September elections that also saw her erstwhile coalition partner socialist Social Democratic Party facing a serious defeat.

Like the fluctuations of financial markets, the business of politics is erratic and full of spectacular U-turns. A new development in recent years is the way officials who attain the highest of jobs in public finance use them as springboards towards extravagant political careers.

Germany's new conservative-liberal coalition has decided to support 'open-ended' EU-Turkey negotiations and favour a 'privileged partnership' in case they fail, it emerged on Wednesday.

But the vote was marked by a record low voter turnout and a significantly increased vote for the far-left party, Die Linke .