Merkel accused of cherrypicking virus advisers as Germany brings in new lockdown
Row comes as chancellor meets regional leaders to agree new restrictions
Germany
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It’s over for Angela Merkel and her winning coalition
Whoever succeeds Germany's Chancellor, they will have a hard time emulating Mutti's broad-based electoral appeal
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Merkel focuses on pandemic legacy as her party considers whether to break with her
Christian Democrats (CDU) will elect a new party leader today as veteran chancellor considers new lockdown measures
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German privacy laws force vaccine officials to guess people's ages from their names
People with 'old' names like Wolfgang or Waltraud more likely to receive letters offering vaccination
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Struggle to replace Angela Merkel as her party votes for a new leader
Leadership contest delayed ten months by pandemic is unlikely to settle the question
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Angela Merkel finds Twitter halt of Trump account 'problematic'
The German Chancellor said that freedom of opinion should not be determined by those running online platforms
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Germany's UberMcCarthyist crackdown on critics of its Covid decrees is remarkable
There is little of the apologetic dithering of Her Majesty’s Government. Threats like ‘Masks on or we close the area down’ are preferred
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What does a much worse second wave of coronavirus mean for house prices? Germany offers a clue
Prices in Germany are rising and agents are bullish – but the 2021 outlook is much stronger than in the UK
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Germany ponders its future without ‘Mutti’ Merkel
Either Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet or Norbert Röttgen will be elected the new leader of Europe’s largest economy on January 16
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German equivalent of Oxford-dictionary will no longer use masculine as standard for all professions
Duden has started a process of updating the definitions of around 12,000 nouns referring to people’s occupations
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Germany accused of breaching EU rules by purchasing supplies of vaccine unilaterally
Germany bought 30 million extra doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine while trumpeting the benefits of EU-wide purchasing
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The week the global vaccines race got ugly
A new international 'league table' is triggering bitter rows over the deployment of dozens of vaccines
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Merkel to hold vaccine talks amid coalition row after Germany fails to order enough
Coalition partners demand answers after country where BioNTech vaccine was developed faces shortage
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Europe's vaccine blunders threaten the entire EU project
Vaccine trouble is breeding a novel form of euroscepticism in Germany, and is shattering Macron's technocrat image in France
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Angela Merkel 'blocked bid to secure more coronavirus vaccine'
German chancellor intervened to force the German, French, Italian and Dutch health ministers to hand over responsibility to EU
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Germany looks to train imams in bid to root out extremism
First university course set to begin in the Spring as Germany looks to send foreign imams home.
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‘The lamps are going out all over Europe’: meet the man who foresaw the First World War
In a new biography, Thomas Otte asks whether our then-Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, was culpable for failing to avert war
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Watch: German police chase daytrippers off ski resort slopes as they enforce local coronavirus restrictions
One person attempted to spit at police officers while another insulted them
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School terms delayed across Europe
Germany latest to consider closures as coronavirus continues to surge
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EU didn't order enough vaccine, say German scientists behind Pfizer/BioNTech jab
'I was amazed' says Prof Ugur Sahin as EU faces shortage of vaccine developed in Germany
