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Germany's Bundestag lower house of parliament will not need to hold a full debate on paying out the next tranche of aid to Greece, the leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative group in parliament said on Tuesday.

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Germany's parliamentary defense commissioner, Hans-Peter Bartels, has renewed calls for a joint EU army amid concerns about the reliability of the NATO alliance and disorganization and fragmentation of national defense structures.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel grimaces as she arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

The Greek Foreign Ministry on Friday paid respects to Helmut Kohl, the former German chancellor who died aged 87.

The ministry described Kohl as a leader "with a sense of historic responsibility who brought to fruition the historic undertaking of peacefully reunifying Germany."

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has died, German newspaper Bild reported. He was 87 years old.
Kohl, the architect of German reunification, was the first chancellor after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In 1989, Kohl proposed to reunite Germany and the reunification occurred in October 1990, according to Sputnik News.

Asking the German lower house to debate the eurozone's decision to give Greece a new credit lifeline could lead to market uncertainty, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Friday.

A senior lawmaker from Germany's center-left Social Democrats (SPD) called on Friday for a full parliamentary debate on the eurozone's latest financing deal for Greece, challenging Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble who suggested such a debate was unnecessary.

Times are hard for many European firms, particularly German giants such as BMW, Puma, Lufthansa and Bosch. It appears these firms can't even afford an office of their own where they could advance their interests with the requisite comfort and equipment. For that reason, they end up crammed together under the same roof. It is often a humble, almost empty room.

Germany's Social Democrats raised pressure on conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel on May 21, saying if she could not resolve a row with Turkey over access to the İncirlik air base, German troops should move.

Merkel's defense minister, tacitly admitting the possibility said she had been looking for other locations and hinted that Jordan could be one.

Germany’s defense minister says her office has drafted a list of eight locations where it could move aircraft supporting the anti-IS mission if Turkey continues to block German lawmakers from visiting troops at the Incirlik base.