Topic: Guido Westerwelle
European countries receiving bailouts must be prepared to give up some sovereignty in exchange for assistance, German Foreign Minister Guido...
Angela Merkel on Monday digested the latest in a series of election defeats after her party suffered a poll defeat in her home state, two years before Germany's leader faces voters nationwide.Merkel's centre-right coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU) and ...
Germany believes unilateral moves would be "very counterproductive" to the Middle East peace process, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle warned on Tuesday.Westerwelle, who spoke at a joint news conference in the West Bank town of Ramallah with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad ...
A high-level German diplomatic mission to the Middle East will try to convince Palestinians next week to drop plans to gain UN recognition for an independent state in September, a minister said Friday.Development Minister Dirk Niebel told Der Spiegel magazine that ...
Embattled German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Sunday he would quit as leader of his ailing Free Democratic Party (FDP) next month but stay on as the country's top diplomat."After 10 years as party chairman, I will no longer stand ...
Two German reporters detained for four months after interviewing the son and lawyer of a woman facing death by stoning were returning home Sunday after being freed."The two accused detained in Tabriz have been released and are departing for their home ...
Germany will help Tunisia hold elections and reform the justice system following the overthrow of its authoritarian ruler, a rights chief said Saturday after talks with Berlin's visiting foreign minister.Mokhtar Trifi said Guido Westerwelle had told him Berlin was willing ...
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Amman on Saturday that his country would make every effort to promote Middle East peace, Jordan's official Petra news agency reported.In a meeting with his Jordanian counterpart Nasser Jawdeh, Westerwelle underscored his country ...
Germany has opened a new exhibit commemorating the landmark Nuremberg war crimes trials - 65 years after more than 20 senior Nazis were put in the dock.. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Sunday that "the Nuremberg trials were the answer to the ...
The 2009 election in Germany did not arrive at a particularly auspicious time for any of the competing parties. After the elimination of all parties which failed to reach the 5% of the vote necessary to gain a place in the lower ...