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...Angela Merkel: A Chancellorship Forged in Crisis, by Alan Crawford and Tony Czuczka, Wiley, RRP£19.99/Bloomberg, RRP$29.95 After her electoral victory this year, Angela Merkel is undoubtedly Europe’s dominant...
...“At a time of such economic distress, to thumb our noses at the Vatican is madness,” Garry O’Sullivan, editor of the Irish Catholic newspaper, told The Financial Times....
...All the above should watch re-runs of Tanner ‘88, the old HBO series written by Garry Trudeau about political campaigns. It would bring them down to earth, or, if E.T., cause them to leave it....
...Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is expected to use a meeting with Angela Merkel, German chancellor, on Monday to issue a warning over what Moscow sees as growing protectionism in the European Union....
...While Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, took pains to stress the boom in EU-Russian trade, they were unable to hide the widening cracks in the relationship at...
...Thomas Steg, a spokesman for Angela Merkel, German chancellor, also condemned Russia’s use of force as “excessive” and said that “assaults on the media . . . are unacceptable”....
...Having grown up in Communist east-Germany, Angela Merkel knows a thing or two about living under permanent surveillance....
...Senior US politicians are also expected at the conference whose organisers include Garry Kasparov, the Russian opposition politician and chess grandmaster....
...Easily the most sought-after attendee was Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster turned fierce critic of President Putin....
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