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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy meet today for the first time in 2012 as they seek to craft a master plan for rescuing the euro over the next three months.

The French government says French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will speak by phone later Monday to discuss an upcoming EU summit amid signs they disagree on parts of a new crisis plan.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she supports French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to be the next head of the International Monetary Fund.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking to counter skepticism on Europe's bank stress tests ahead of their publication, saying they are realistic.

The euro750 billion ($1 trillion) rescue loan package only bought euro zone countries more time, but didn't resolve the continent's underlying debt problem, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a European Central Bank official said.

President Obama advised German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Europe needed to try something big.

Siemens said on Tuesday it would reject any further orders from Iran as world powers consider imposing wider sanctions on Tehran over its disputed nuclear activity.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday Iran was running out of time if it wanted to avoid further sanctions.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressing General Motors Co. to come up with a "reliable concept" for the future of its subsidiary Opel.

GM's decision to sell European subsidiary Opel to auto parts maker Magna International was a political victory for German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

But the carmaker's future success is far from guaranteed.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel , who faces reelection in about a month, said she would press ahead with plans to save Opel, the troubled German unit of General Motors, after lamenting that the American company's board failed to resolve the fate of its European operations when it met Friday in Detroit.