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...“The problem is you never quite know what his next idea will be,” said Nils Schmid, foreign policy spokesman for Scholz’s party, the Social Democrats....
...Andrew Schmid Prague, Czech Republic...
...Letter in response to this article: Why Germany’s former leader sounds illogical / From Andrew Schmid, Prague, Czech Republic...
...This week, Angela Merkel went out of her way to damp them down....
...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....
...“Corona meant that issues such as welfare and work played a big role in the campaign,” said Nils Schmid, a senior SPD lawmaker....
...The party’s foreign policy speaker Nils Schmid has made a mark with forceful views on China....
...But Angela Merkel, chancellor, proved resistant to American pressure, saying she preferred to raise security requirements for all suppliers....
...“It’s a real blow for all those in Germany and Europe who advocate dialogue with Russia,” said Jürgen Hardt, foreign affairs spokesman of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union....
...“Biden will if anything be more demanding of Europe, because — unlike Trump — he will want to confront China together with the EU, in a co-ordinated fashion,” said Nils Schmid, foreign affairs spokesman...
...“It’s important to me that we don’t choose a rupture with Angela Merkel, but rather continuity,” he told reporters recently....
...Andreas Nick, an MP with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, is one of those encouraged by Blinken’s book....
...It also provides important pointers to the future direction of German policy on China after Angela Merkel, chancellor for the past 15 years, finally quits the political stage....
...“The German parliament requires the legal means to be able to exclude untrustworthy suppliers like Huawei from the 5G buildout, and this new law appears to do just that,” said Nils Schmid, foreign policy...
...(FT) Fabian Schmid in Der Standard argues the results show that rightwing politics in Austria may be down, but not out....
...Angela Merkel is facing intense pressure to scrap the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, which will transport gas from Russia to Germany, to punish Moscow over the poisoning of Russian opposition activist...
...“Merkel’s China policy is behind the times,” said Nils Schmid, foreign policy spokesman for the Social Democrats, the junior partner in Germany’s grand coalition government....
...Angela Merkel could face a damaging setback in the German parliament after lawmakers from the country’s two governing parties agreed a bill that would in effect exclude Huawei from the build-out of the country...
...Nils Schmid, the SPD’s foreign affairs spokesman, said coronabonds would help show fellow member states “that we’ve learnt from the eurozone debt crisis”....
...These were the words of Joshua Wong and other leaders of the Hong Kong protest movement in an open letter to Angela Merkel published this week in the mass circulation Bild Zeitung, just days before Angela...
...Nils Schmid, an SPD member of the Bundestag and the party’s foreign affairs spokesman, told the FT: “Germany will not send ships [to the Gulf]....
...The same story appears to be playing out at national level, where the Greens lead some national opinion polls, ahead even of chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives....
...Bo Skovhus is a menacing bureaucrat as Dr Schön, who reappears as her assassin, Jack the Ripper; Angela Denoke is a smooth-voiced but vulnerable Countess Geschwitz, who sacrifices her life for Lulu....
...And his punchbag of choice is Angela Merkel, Germany’s long-serving chancellor....
...Merkel: The woman from yesterday Die Welt’s Thomas Schmid ponders the end of the German chancellor. Guy Chazan explores the phenomenon of Merkel fatigue in the FT’s big read....
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