UPI Almanac for Sunday, Sept, 27, 2009.

BERLIN, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is fighting an uphill battle in his attempt to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor.

UPI Almanac for Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.

BERLIN, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the rival in the race for her post, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, faced off Sunday evening in a TV debate -- the first highlight of a so far dull election campaign.

UPI Almanac for Friday, Sept. 11, 2009.

BERLIN, July 8 (UPI) -- Germany has employed two former high-ranking officials to lobby for rival pipeline options to secure natural gas for Europe.

BERLIN, June 26 (UPI) -- Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has been hired to lobby for the EU gas pipeline Nabucco.

BERLIN, June 11 (UPI) -- Germany's Social Democratic Party is in crisis after disastrous European election results just three months before the country's national elections.

KALININGRAD, Russia, May 20 (UPI) -- The Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany should be seen as part of European efforts to diversify the energy sector, a former German chancellor said.