Merkel says EU-African summit to go ahead even with Mugabe
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday accused the regime of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe of &quot;unspeakable acts&quot; but said December&#39;s EU-African Union summit would go ahead even if he attended.
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has not been invited to the Franco-African summit in Cannes, French officials say.
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Germany will use its presidency of the European Union next year to launch new efforts aimed at helping secure peace in the Middle East, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a regular video podcast on ...Comment
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GERMAN Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will go ahead with a planned visit to Libya, despite Tripoli's delay in paying millions of dollars of compensation to victims of a Berlin night club bombing 18 years ago.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown proposed new sanctions against Zimbabwe on Thursday and threatened to boycott an EU-African summit in December if its President Robert Mugabe attended.
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Libya hosts a summit of 23 African leaders on Saturday against the backdrop of conflicts in Darfur, Ivory Coast and Somalia.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel was holding talks with the leaders of the Netherlands and Spain on Friday as the pace quickened in the race to find a new institutional treaty for the European Union.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the leaders of the European Union's 27 nations to resolve deep divisions over the future of the expanding bloc as they gathered Thursday for a summit to discuss an EU constitution.
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Germany and France both support inviting to European Union membership talks at a summit in December in Brussels, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said.
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Germany, president of the European Union, urged a new Palestinian unity government on Friday to comply with the three conditions set out by the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators.
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BERLIN -- Days before hosting a Group of Eight summit that has already drawn violent protests, German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday said she welcomed President Bush's initiative on global warming but insisted it must fall within the framework of United Nations treaty negotiations. Merkel made the comments during a news conference with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, who concurred ...
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European leaders gave strong backing Thursday to an ambitious plan to combat climate change, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, but cautioned work is still needed on a key element - binding targets for ...Comment
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe called  for unity on Thursday amid rare public jostling within his  ruling ZANU-PF party over who will eventually succeed the  controversial 80-year-old leader.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday welcomed a proposed Palestinian coalition &#151; but firmly underlined in talks with President Mahmoud Abbas the European Union stance that any new government must recognize Israel.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has threatened to boycott a summit of African and European leaders in Lisbon later this year if Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe attended.
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The European Union said the planned summit between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Egypt would improve the chances for progress in the Middle East peace process.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium _ German Chancellor Angela Merkel will push her European Union counterparts to go green on energy at summit talks Thursday, urging them to adopt tough measures needed to fight global warming ...Comment