Merkel urges Israel recognition
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Germany's Angela Merkel repeats the EU's demand that a new Palestinian government must recognise Israel.
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German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Sunday that a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the stabilisation of Iraq and regional reforms were necessary to ensure Europe&#39;s security.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was meeting with Mideast leaders as part of a push for renewed efforts in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.Comment
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday hailed a &quot;good compromise&quot; with Poland over the voting system which paved the way to agreement on a blueprint for a new EU treaty after a tense summit.
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JERUSALEM -- A group of internationally renowned Israeli authors and university presidents yesterday demanded that Israel grant Palestinian students from the Gaza Strip free movement to superior universities in the West Bank.
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German President Horst Koehler said  on Tuesday that his country's special relationship with Israel,  rooted in responsibility for the Holocaust, could not be eroded  by the passage of time.
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More than 130 former world leaders, politicians and Nobel laureates call for urgent efforts to find Arab-Israeli peace.
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Jordan&#39;s King Abdullah II on Thursday urged the European Union to support Palestinian education and health services, in talks with EU parliament chief Hans-Gert Poettering.
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Israel will respond with a series of positive gestures if the successors to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat will implement security reforms and a &quot;real&quot; cease-fire felt on the ground in the territories, Israeli security and diplomatic sources
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Israel could be a future member of the European Union, a top EU official suggested Tuesday.
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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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Comment is free: Israel must recognise our basic entitlements if it is serious about peace, writes Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted Czech leader Mirek Topolanek here Sunday as part of a diplomatic drive to remove obstacles to an accord on a new institutional treaty for the EU.
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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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Chancellor Merkel gets high marks as Germany prepares to lead the EU next year and host the G-8 summit.
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The Quartet of Mid-East peace negotiators says the new Palestinian government must recognise Israel.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on mainstream parties to block the ascendency of neo-Nazis after they made a stunning breakthrough in regional elections which saw her conservatives flounder.