BERLIN, June 8 (UPI) -- The European Parliament is becoming more conservative after the biggest elections in European history.

FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A former German foreign minister said Germany's response to the current world financial crisis was too isolationist.

BERLIN, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Despite an unusually direct request from U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and mounting international pressure, Germany on Friday refused to send additional troops into southern Afghanistan to help NATO battle the Taliban. The rejection is a huge mistake, experts say.

BERLIN, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The German government is not united on questions concerning its Middle East policy, it surfaced last week, after the country's foreign minister came under fire for inviting his Syrian counterpart to Berlin.

BERLIN, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Turkey's new President Abdullah Gul has pledged to continue his country’s pro-European Union course, raising hopes in Europe that Turkey's unique experiment of more Islam and more democracy can succeed.

BERLIN, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced her intention to revive the mothballed EU constitution, The Times of London said.