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...Angela Rayner has pushed back against Lord Peter Mandelson after the Labour peer criticised her package of employment reforms, likening his complaints to the “squealing” by business over the introduction...
...But Scholz’s move is a bitter pill for the Greens to swallow....
...But it might also allow Germany’s coal-fired power stations, which are slated for closure by 2030, to operate for longer — a bitter pill for the Greens to swallow....
...With 11 days to go until an election that will decide who succeeds Angela Merkel as chancellor, polls suggest power could potentially pass from her centre-right CDU/CSU bloc to a three-party coalition made...
...That was a hard pill to swallow for Saxony-Anhalt’s Christian Democrats, who are generally far more conservative than their comrades in western Germany....
...China’s top two social media giants are increasingly in competition as ByteDance’s Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, swallows an increasing share of users’ screen time....
...The 53-year-old former economic adviser to Angela Merkel became the youngest person ever to lead the Bundesbank in 2011....
...Speaking after the conclusion of a four-day summit on Tuesday, German chancellor Angela Merkel urged MEPs not to rebuff the agreement....
...“You can close down everything, maybe that’s the fairest thing to do, but it’s maybe not the most practical thing to do,” said German chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday....
...Norbert Röttgen, a leading parliamentarian from Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, has drafted a bill to exclude “untrustworthy” companies from German 5G....
...Chart du jour: Merkel strikes back The far-right Alternative for Germany — a party that has defined itself in opposition to Angela Merkel — has suffered a collapse in support at the expense of a resurgent...
...Extreme trouble Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats are divided over their relationship with the far-right....
...Aside from pronouncements by the likes of Angela Merkel and Jamie Dimon, the crowd will also be watching to see whether Trump interacts with Greta Thunberg. Or not....
...This is something Italy and others will have to swallow if talks on deposit insurance are to move....
...It is a concern shared by Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor....
...However, the latter’s roots in former East Germany and its hostility to German membership of Nato are difficult for its potential coalition partners to swallow....
...But in a tale that sounds all too familiar to Brexit negotiators, the Swiss government has struggled to convince its parliament and public to swallow an arrangement that would push Bern closer to the EU....
...The prime minister will jet across Europe over the next 24 hours to try and convince German chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s president Emmanuel Macron of the merits of handing Britain another short...
...Ireland's Leo Varadkar favours a long extension and German Chancellor Angela Merkel is keeping her options open. (FT) The FT looks at whether this is a De Gaulle moment for Mr Macron....
...The EU needs better tools for dealing with wayward states, such as docking regional development funds, which Hungary swallows in large amounts....
...For many inside the CDU, however, an alliance with the Greens and the Social Democrats would be hard to swallow....
...That could be hard for the French to swallow....
...Angela Merkel isn't a leader prone to “the vision thing”....
...Angela Merkel should grasp it with both hands....
...German Chancellor Angela Merkel, her Austria counterpart Sebastian Kurz and Jim Mattis, US defence secretary have all flown in....
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