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...Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their Free Democrat junior partners are pursuing legislation that could force online news aggregators such as Google to ask permission to publish links...
...Mr Hollande is trying to maintain the delicate balancing act of keeping his party onside as he implements tax rises and deep cuts to spending, while engaging in talks with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor...
...But they also admitted that it was Angela Merkel, German chancellor, who first decided that it was not worth continuing negotiations past the Wednesday deadline....
...All eyes are on a meeting on Saturday between Angela Merkel, German chancellor, and François Hollande, France’s president, but EADS and BAE negotiators say they will be “looking for progress” at the talks...
...On Tuesday, Angela Merkel was set to head to Greece to tackle issues she viewed as far more pressing when she picked up the phone to French president François Hollande....
...That said, there are mutters about whether Mr Enders is backed fully by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor....
...But one senior adviser said: “It’s difficult to see this happening while Angela Merkel is still in office.”...
...Mr Hollande has vowed not to ratify the EU’s new fiscal discipline treaty unless new growth-promoting measures are added, putting him on a potential collision course with Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor...
...Additional reporting by Peter Marsh and Jim Pickard in London and James Boxell in Paris...
...Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, on Sunday broke a months-long pact with Angela Merkel, German chancellor, not to discuss the role of the European Central Bank in public, calling for the ECB to adopt...
...whether he could avoid the fate of the deposed leaders of Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, Mr Sarkozy, who has been the chief architect of the eurozone’s response to its crisis alongside Germany’s Angela...
...If victorious, Mr Hollande said he would next year “propose to the German chancellor [Angela Merkel] a new Franco-German treaty exactly 50 years after the founding act of Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer...
...This would maintain the national balancing act put in place by Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the French president and German chancellor respectively....
...When asked whether he would join Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, in campaigning for Mr Sarkozy in the upcoming French presidential elections, Mr Cameron demurred and said he was not sure his support...
...It is also a blow for David Cameron, the UK prime minister, and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who both lobbied on behalf of Eurofighter....
...President Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel have made this a key element of their proposals for greater European integration....
...The French president and his German counterpart, Angela Merkel, are pushing for the European Union to introduce the tax....
...this new approach was evident in his recent announcement of a withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan over the next two years, as well as in the high-stakes negotiations over the eurozone crisis with Angela...
...Any climbdown would be a humiliation, given that one of the chief proposals to emerge from the president’s August crisis meeting with Germany’s Angela Merkel was for all eurozone members to adopt such a...
...as Nicolas Sarkozy, French president and the current chairman of the Group of 20 leading economies, sought to co-ordinate a eurozone response to the turmoil in financial markets, with telephone calls to Angela...
...Mr Sarkozy was at the forefront of last week’s second rescue deal for Greece, alongside Angela Merkel of Germany....
...Part-nationalisation is viewed with distaste by Angela Merkel’s coalition of conservative Christian Democrats and free-market Free Democrats....
...At the same time, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France was expected to hold telephone calls with Angela Merkel, German chancellor, and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, in an effort...
...Senior German officials had been prepared for the end of “Merkozy”, the awkward partnership between Chancellor Angela Merkel and the irascible Mr Sarkozy....
...The FT’s James Boxell was there. It seems that the right in France don’t do failure....
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