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European troika with France’s basic role keeps to buy time 26 Aug 2018

European troika with France’s basic role keeps to buy time

The European Commission recently adopted a first package of €18 million for projects in support of sustainable economic and social development in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including €8 million assistance to the private sector. As reported by the European sources, these projects are the first of a wider package of €50 million for Iran, […]

It’s essential to protect world order from US harm 12 Jun 2018

It’s essential to protect world order from US harm

 In a speech at the Iranian Foreign Ministry Institute for Political and International Studies in November 2013, former German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer said the United States is the only power which can guarantee a certain order in the world. But that view has proven quite opposite with Donald Trump at the […]

Germans are losing power in Europe 06 Feb 2018

Germans are losing power in Europe

Germans are deeply concerned about the prolongation of the process of forming a coalition government between the Social Democratic Party and the Christian Social Party. In a recent poll conducted in Germany, 71 percent of German citizens consider the delay in forming a coalition government incomprehensible, while about 28 percent have considered the process normal. […]

Merkel Believes 3-Way Coalition  Can Work, Greens Skeptical 04 Nov 2017

Merkel Believes 3-Way Coalition Can Work, Greens Skeptical

Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed confidence on Friday that three party groups trying to form a new German government can reach a coalition deal, despite skepticism from her would-be allies. With her former coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), determined to go into opposition, Merkel is pushing for a coalition with the ecologist Greens and the […]

Refugee Issue Complicates Merkel’s Bid to form Government 08 Oct 2017

Refugee Issue Complicates Merkel’s Bid to form Government

TEHRAN – Two weeks after winning elections with a reduced majority, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a first step Sunday toward forming a government by trying to unite her bitterly divided conservative camp. Merkel met for closed-door talks with her Bavarian CSU allies led by Horst Seehofer, who blames her open-door refugee policy for the […]

Merkel Wins 4th Term as Nationalists Enter German Parliament 25 Sep 2017

Merkel Wins 4th Term as Nationalists Enter German Parliament

TEHRAN  – German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term Sunday, but now faces the tricky prospect of forming a coalition with two disparate new partners after voters weakened her conservatives and a nationalist, anti-migrant party surged into parliament. Merkel’s center-left challenger, Martin Schulz, conceded his Social Democrats had suffered a “crushing election defeat,” with […]

German protesters heckle Merkel at final campaign rally before polls open 23 Sep 2017

German protesters heckle Merkel at final campaign rally before polls open

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been booed and heckled by right-wing protesters while speaking at her final campaign rally in Munich two days before the polls that will likely put her in office for a fourth term. “With whistling and yelling, one will surely not shape Germany’s future,” Merkel said at the Friday rally as the […]

Turks Safe in Germany, Merkel Says, Dismissing Ankara’s Warning 11 Sep 2017

Turks Safe in Germany, Merkel Says, Dismissing Ankara’s Warning

TEHRAN – Turks can safely come to Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday, dismissing a warning from Ankara that its citizens should take care when travelling there due to “an increase in anti-Turkish sentiment.” Tensions between Berlin and Ankara have been bubbling for months and Turkey’s warning on Sept. 9 came after Germany’s foreign ministry […]