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...In 2009, Angela Merkel’s government amended the constitution to enshrine a commitment to near-balanced budgets....
...At two separate fundraisers in New York on Wednesday, Biden referred to the late German chancellor Helmut Kohl when referring to former German chancellor Angela Merkel....
...Vice-president Kamala Harris and secretary of state Antony Blinken will also attend the conference, which is in its 60th year. Read the full interview with Ursula von der Leyen....
...But the book I finished the year with, and which has lingered for days in my mind, was Act Of Oblivion by Robert Harris, one of my favourite authors (here’s the FT review)....
...I’ll be taking a look at that and also at how Germans are starting to reassess the political legacy of Angela Merkel. You can find me at tony.barber@ft.com....
...We expect young people to be revolutionaries — and some are — but there are a lot of young people reproducing the traditional ways of religion and politics,” said Angela Alonso, a sociologist at the University...
...Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy leader, said the prime minister had been “dragged kicking and screaming into taking any action at all”....
...Chief whip Chris Heaton-Harris, who attended the meeting, has referred the matter to the parliamentary Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday evening....
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...However, Harri’s duet with Johnson, recounted to the Welsh language website Golwg 360, did not go down well with Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, who said: “They think it’s all one big joke, don’t...
...Next month the Fife Arms is hosting the Braemar Literary Festival, featuring speakers including authors Ian Rankin and Sebastian Faulks, and chef Angela Hartnett....
...continent contrasted sharply with Bolsonaro’s visit to Italy for a G20 summit days earlier, where the former Trump ally appeared isolated and said he had accidentally stepped on then German chancellor Angela...
...But Angela Nagle, author of Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right, suggests another reason: the west’s self-image as ever-wealthy, ever-safe and ever-powerful...
...Macron triumphed back in 2020 in persuading then German chancellor Angela Merkel to back the pandemic plan and have it financed by common EU debt, but he is cautious about trying to push things too far with...
...For more than 15 years, Angela Merkel, the outgoing Christian Democratic chancellor, has led by character and by example....
...There is The Sportsman, with chef Stephen Harris, on the coast at Seasalter and Read’s, a restaurant with rooms in a Georgian manor house run by the impeccable team of David and Rona Pitchford, in Faversham...
...Angela Merkel of Germany and Justin Trudeau of Canada had difficult relationships with Mr Trump....
...In the news Kamala Harris to lead White House response to border crisis Joe Biden has put vice-president Kamala Harris in charge of US efforts to stop the flow of migrants from Central America over the...
...(FT) Coming up on Monday US vice-president Kamala Harris will give a speech by video link at the European parliament’s International Women's Day celebration....
...(FT) Equal Pay Day Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will host events to mark equal pay day in the US....
...A Biden transition official said after the agreement was signed: “The Biden-Harris administration looks forward to consulting with the EU on a co-ordinated approach to China’s unfair economic practices and...
...For Angela Alonso, sociologist at the University of São Paulo, the election of Mr Bolsonaro was a reflection of the growing conservatism of Brazilian society over many years in reaction to corruption and...
...Friday’s bill was approved with Kamala Harris, the vice-president, casting the tiebreaking vote after a 50-50 split between the two parties....
...Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, says: “The Food and Drug Administration has largely got a handle on the approval process; the big worry now for Joe Biden is: how does he distribute...
...Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee pulled in a record $364.5m during August, capitalising on a boost in fundraising surrounding the party’s convention and his selection of Kamala Harris as his...
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