Angela Merkel

Authorities believe the mosque was used as a hub to funnel people and arms to conflict zones.

Germany's energy and transport policies must work in sync to reduce overall emissions.

The Interior Ministry estimates that around 3,500 anti-refugee incidents took place last year.

Young people are vulnerable to online radicalization, Germany's domestic intelligence chief said.

Angela Merkel is trying to shore up conservative support ahead of elections this year.

The nomination of former European Parliament president Martin Schulz sparked a revival in support for the party.

The Chancellor also said it was critical to include Muslim countries in the fight against terrorism.

The Euroskeptic political scientist has Brussels politicians worried.

Angela Merkel underestimates her center-left challenger Martin Schulz at her peril.

Majorities of people in eight countries think immigration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped.

The plan will close loopholes in the asylum system and rebut the chancellor's critics on the right.

The German Chancellor needs the support of the controversial Law and Justice government.

The cover of the German magazine depicts the president beheading Lady Liberty.

New SPD leader has overseen early gains in polls and trimmed Merkel's voter support

Trump and his policies, from questioning the value of NATO and free trade to banning Muslim refugees, came up repeatedly in discussions in Malta on external "challenges" facing the Union.

The German chancellor must preserve a deal with Ankara that limits refugee flows into Europe.

Former European Parliament president Schulz took over his party to turn its flagging performance around.

Martin Schulz said that Europe had to stand up to defend liberal values.

The German Chancellor will discuss the situation in east Ukraine.

Merkel reminded Trump on Saturday that the Geneva Conventions require the international community to take in war refugees on humanitarian grounds.

A full third of Trump supporters hold a favorable view of Putin.

The operation was not linked to the arrest of a suspected extremist in Vienna last week.

Schulz is Merkel's nearest competitor for the German chancellorship.

Schulz will stand as the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidate for Chancellor in the poll scheduled for September.

Police arrested the Austrian suspect, a 17-year-old with Albanian roots, after tip-offs.

The head of the far-right party in Thuringia described the memorial as a "monument of shame" in Dresden.

France and the Netherlands, which also have upcoming elections, could be targets too.

Merkel said openness, not populism, polarization or isolation, was the answer to the world's challenges of globalization and digitalization.

May said single market membership would in effect mean "not leaving the EU."

"I thought frankly it was inappropriate for a president-elect of the United States to be stepping into the politics of other countries in a quite direct manner," Kerry told CNN.