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Angela Merkel suffers stinging defeat in CDU vote (Video)

Volker Kauder, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the last 13 years, has been sent packing as head of her party’s parliamentary group in an inner-party ballot.
Guenther Oettinger, who’s also one of the leading figures in the Christian Democratic Union, noted that Merkel is losing her power within the CDU party. “This is normal, she’s a lame duck,” he said in an interview.

Angela Merkel strikes migrant deal, averts disaster for now (Video)

The German coalition government has been salvaged and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has once again averted political collapse with a deal on migration.
Chancellor Angela Merkel reached a last minute compromise with interior minister, and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Horst Seehofer over immigration into Europe and ultimately Germany.
Merkel’s other coalition partners in the government, the SPD have to agree on the deal.

Angela Merkel survives, but is hanging on by a very thin thread (Video)

For now German Chancellor Angela Merkel survives, but her reign over Germany and Europe is nearing its end.
Once dubbed by the establishment liberal media as the last “leader of the free world”, Germany’s Angela Merkel is now on a political tightrope, as her power within Germany and the Europe Union diminishes by the day.
RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou break down Angela Merkel’s spiral downwards, and how Europe, the United States and Russia will shape foreign policy in a post-Angela world.

Germany’s dismal election

On Sunday Germany votes in an election from which Chancellor Merkel’s CDU party is universally expected to remain the largest but which none of the underlying problems which affect Germany have been addressed.
One of the problems involved in discussing Germany is that the image of the country as a runaway economic success story is so powerful that it makes objective analysis of its problems difficult.

Germany tells EU to prepare countermeasures against US sanctions

The German government has again weighed in with strong criticism of the latest US sanctions bill.
The latest comments have come from German Economics Minister Brigitte Zypries, who is reported by Reuters to have said the following

We consider this as being against international law, plain and simple.  Of course we don’t want a trade war. But it is important the European Commission now looks into countermeasures.