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...The leader of the CDU, Friedrich Merz, said the country was “suffocating in bureaucracy” that he said was worsened by the current government, which succeeded Angela Merkel’s “grand coalition” between the...
...In 2009, Angela Merkel’s government amended the constitution to enshrine a commitment to near-balanced budgets....
...Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), gave an interview to my colleague in Berlin Guy Chazan in which he hinted at some regret at the implacable and binary way Angela...
...Weidmann’s replacement is one of the first big decisions for Olaf Scholz, who is set to replace Angela Merkel as chancellor next week after his Social Democrat party won general elections in September....
...Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the opposition CDU bore “complete responsibility” for the exit from coal and nuclear power that formed part of his predecessor Angela Merkel’s Energiewende policies, which in...
...Hackers posing as Germany’s former chancellor Angela Merkel attempted to trick European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde into giving them access to her WhatsApp messaging service, but they appear...
...eurozone’s era of ultra-cheap money later today when the European Central Bank president is expected to outline plans to stop buying more bonds and to start raising interest rates next month, writes Martin Arnold...
...Under former chancellor Angela Merkel, Berlin decided to phase out nuclear power in 2011 and later also moved to close all of the country’s remaining coal-fired power stations....
...Meanwhile, incoming chancellor Olaf Scholz has signalled a greater openness to borrowing than his predecessor Angela Merkel — albeit within the constraints of a constitutional limit on budget deficits....
...Arnold Bezuyen played Mime, bizarrely portrayed as a collector of toys, without exaggeration and Albert Dohmen sang an almost noble Hagen....
...After new coronavirus cases in Europe hit a record high of 2m last week, German chancellor Angela Merkel said she was “very worried” and urged the third of Germany’s population who had not been vaccinated...
...Marc FilippinoMartin Arnold is the FT’s Frankfurt bureau chief....
...Weidmann worked as an adviser to chancellor Angela Merkel before his appointment to run the Bundesbank in 2011. His decision to resign means they look set to leave office around the same time....
...But von Eben-Worlée, who heads a 170-year-old raw materials supplier, believes Germany today has a real chance to shift gears after its two main parties were locked for eight years into chancellor Angela...
...Germany’s Social Democrats have taken the lead in opinion polls, making their leader Olaf Scholz the favourite to replace Angela Merkel as chancellor by forming a left-leaning coalition that is expected...
...Helge Braun, chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, told the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag that cases could reach up to 100,000 a day by late September if they continued to rise at the current rate...
...Tourism-dependent countries such as Spain have pushed back against German chancellor Angela Merkel’s call for a co-ordinated EU response for travellers from countries with high levels of the variant first...
...The tone for this debate will be set by elections in Germany in September that will determine both Angela Merkel’s replacement as chancellor and which parties form the next government....
...On Monday, Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel will meet regional leaders to discuss whether to tighten restrictions after the country’s seven-day infection rate per 100,000 people rose to 103.9 on Sunday...
...The 53-year-old former economic adviser to Angela Merkel became the youngest person ever to lead the Bundesbank in 2011....
...fall was much heavier than the 0.3 per cent decline expected by economists polled by Reuters and follows a 9.1 per cent decline in December, when the latest restrictions on movement were first imposed by Angela...
...miles.johnson@ft.com and martin.arnold@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Draghi’s debt advice works for personal finances too / From Stephen Horwitz, Bethesda, MD, US...
...was much heavier than the 0.3 per cent decline expected by economists polled by Reuters, and follows a 9.1 per cent decline in December when the latest restrictions on people’s movement were tightened by Angela...
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