German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that NATO is important not just for Europe but also for the United States, speaking as a major security gathering kicked off in Munich. “I think we should all be aware of the mutual value of NATO,” she said at a joint Berlin press ...
Germany’s former foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the centre-left Social Democrats was elected Sunday as the country’s ceremonial president in a vote held in the national parliament. Steinmeier, 61, was voted in as head of state for a five-year term with 931 out of 1,239 valid votes by a special ...
