Angela Merkel is ‘definitively a lame duck’ after she was forced to make a humiliating U-turn by scrapping plans for a strict Easter lockdown, a former German government spokesman has said. Bela Anda, a press secretary under Merkel’s predecessor Gerhard Schroeder, said
Speaking in the Bundestag, the veteran leader said the Covid variant was behind a surge in the number of infections across Germany. She told MPs it was to blame for a “new pandemic”, which has forced the country into an extended lockdown
Some European leaders are increasingly nervous the Commission President will trigger a global jabs war if she starts freely blocking exports. The top eurocrat yesterday announced beefed-up proposals for emergency restrictions on Covid vaccines leaving the EU for nations like the UK
The Chancellor’s decision to scrap plans for an extended Easter holiday in a bid to break a third wave of COVID-19 despite having agreed on the idea two days earlier during talks with governors of Germany’s 16 states have prompted suggestions that
The German Chancellor admitted it was a “mistake” to announce new lockdown restrictions for a period of five days over the Easter break apologising to lockdown-weary Germans after the hastily-conceived plan triggered a backlash. The embarrassing U-Turn prompt opposition MP Christian Lindner
The army chief will be heard behind closed doors in the Bundestag today, a first time agreement between two countries in their cooperation on defence and security projects. General Francois Lecointre will be expected to discuss the development of a combat jet
And Mr Weber, the leader of the European People’s Party group in the European Parliament, also claimed the bloc had forced Boris Johnson to the negotiating table in the wake of his phone calls with Mrs Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron
Angela Merkel may face ‘disaster’ in elections says expert The Insa survey, commissioned by German newspaper Bild, suggested the party Mrs Merkel led until she stepped down in 2019 is facing an uphill task as it gears up for crucial federal elections
The German Chancellor blamed an “exponential” rise in coronavirus cases on the Kent strain, which was first detected in September last year. As a result, Ms Merkel said she has little choice but to introduce new lockdown measures from April 1 –
The German Chancellor has firmly thrown her support behind the European Commission’s aggressive move to threaten Britain with an export ban on Covid jabs. In a phone call with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday, she fumed the EU had shipped more