As Europe looks to Germany for answers on how to bail out debt-stricken Greece, Berlin has become ever more willing to defend its national interests rather than toe the European line, analysts said. In recent days, Germany has moved away from promoting a European-led solution to Greece's fiscal woes, preferring instead for the International Monetary Fund to intervene if ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday there should in future be a mechanism to expel countries from the eurozone as a last resort if they persistently break its financial rules. Merkel — whose country has Europe's biggest economy — lent her support to recent proposals by Finance Minister Wolfgang ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel called the sex abuse scandal rocking the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI a major challenge to German society and warned the only way to come to terms with it was to "find out everything that has happened." Merkel's comments to parliament on Wednesday came amid ...