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...In an interview with the Financial Times, Christoph Heusgen, a longtime foreign policy adviser to former chancellor Angela Merkel, strongly criticised Israel for opposing Palestinian statehood and expanding...
...Successive German governments under Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel spent the next three decades reducing the defence budget, which hovered just above 1 per cent of gross domestic product...
...Angela Merkel stepped down in December after 16 years as chancellor and her successor, Olaf Scholz, presides over a fragile coalition of three parties with big differences over foreign policy....
...The nuclear ban treaty is seen by Washington, Paris and London — and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s outgoing government, in which the SPD is a junior partner — largely as a distraction from arms control talks...
...That could be read as a veiled attack on Angela Merkel, who will retire from politics next month after 16 years as chancellor....
...“Germany as a business location has been steadily losing attractiveness,” said Klaus Fischer, owner of the Fischer Group, a maker of wall plugs and car parts near Stuttgart....
...Authorities are investigating CDU Bundestag member Axel Fischer for suspected corruption, and last week lifted his parliamentary immunity....
...German chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged that there was “an acceptance problem with the AstraZeneca vaccine at the moment” that was slowing the jab’s rollout....
...Annalena in trouble Joschka Fischer, the German Green party’s first-ever foreign minister, once called the chancellery the “death zone of politics”....
...retorted writer Stephanie Yeboah when Hartwig Fischer, director of the British Museum, tweeted solidarity for Black Lives Matter. Yeboah thus yoked racism into the charged question of restitution....
...So is Stanley Fischer, former vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve....
...The twist is that it is hosted by two former cast members, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey....
...But as Sebastian Fischer at Der Spiegel notes, it was an address high on rhetoric but one that failed to announce new measures — domestic or European — to stem the pandemic....
...He insisted he was working in close co-ordination with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor....
...Also at stake is the future of the grand coalition between Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the SPD, which has governed Germany for 10 of the past 14 years....
...(El Mundo) New Order Joschka Fischer looks at the recent US-China tensions over Huawei and sees the end of the world as we know it....
...Road to east-west harmony Joschka Fischer sees the transformation of the car industry as one of the means to heal the political divisions across the European continent....
...the German economy”, as Chancellor Angela Merkel puts it....
...Sunday’s mini migration summit in Brussels was billed as the day for EU leaders to come to the rescue of Angela Merkel....
...German chancellor Angela Merkel faces another menacing electoral test, as voters in the federal state of Hesse get to pick a new regional government and parliament this Sunday....
...She has just added the estate of German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher to her stable of artists, working alongside Konrad Fischer, Fraenkel and Sprüth Magers galleries....
...News round-up Health leadership German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the World Health Summit in Berlin urged greater international action against disease and epidemics, backed by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom...
...Mr Fischer, one of the Green party’s elder statesmen, was speaking as exploratory talks continued between Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc and two smaller parties, the liberal FDP and Greens, on...
...Joschka Fischer, its pro-federalist former foreign minister, has called on Berlin to drop its erstwhile caution and embrace the French president ....
...A draft coalition agreement drawn up in January between the Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the Social Democratic party included a pledge for 1.5m new homes in the next few years....
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