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...Striking individual deals with countries that commit to specific reforms in return for financial leeway harks back to how then-chancellor Angela Merkel aired the idea of cash-for-reform “contracts” during...
...Angela Merkel and her frugal deputy Mark Rutte indicated that the crisis had to worsen before they grasped that nettle Ms Lagarde’s actions have now all but bailed out prevaricating governments and bought...
...I do not mind a stick heap or some nettles out of sight to feed a few types of butterfly....
...Merkel unfriends Facebook Angela Merkel has decided to take her Facebook page — and its 2.5m followers — offline....
...This week at Meseberg, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, along with French president Emmanuel Macron, shifted it back into gear — albeit a low one....
...Sunday’s mini migration summit in Brussels was billed as the day for EU leaders to come to the rescue of Angela Merkel....
...After Sunday’s aperitif, Thursday will be the real summit to “save Angela Merkel”....
...“I hope,” said Angela, “you’re nothing to do with that bloody Germaine Greer.” Undeterred by Angela, she returned to the rundown forest for another look....
...This was the setting in which Mario Monti, Italy’s prime minister, held talks in Berlin last week with Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor....
...It is an uncomfortable position to be in, but I find myself agreeing with Angela Merkel over the eurozone....
...Optimism that eurozone leaders were finally grasping the nettle with regard to the region’s sovereign debt crisis helped send risk assets soaring and further encouraging results from the US banking sector...
...has been far too hawkish. 18.40 Ever since America unveiled its own Tarp ( or Troubled Asset Relief Programme) in 2008, observers there have muttered darkly about Europe’s failure to grasp its banking nettle...
...Angela Maxwell, managing director, Acuwomen. Tony McCoy, jockey. Tamara Mellon. founder and creative chief, Jimmy Choo. John Nettles, actor. Sophie Okonedo, actress. John Pitman, chairman, JHP Group....
...“David even tried to get John Nettles [the star] to drop in,” reveals one colleague. “He was very disappointed to learn that he lived too far away.”...
...Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is personally in favour of nuclear energy but has said she will not question the coalition agreement, which commits the present government to the existing phase-out...
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