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...The state votes will mark the start of one of the busiest electoral years in recent German history, culminating in Bundestag elections in September that will decide who succeeds Angela Merkel as chancellor...
...The week starts with the consumer electronics show, while things will be rounded off at the weekend with the election of Angela Merkel’s successor at the top of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party...
...the bank’s annual report at the European Parliament on Monday Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell is due to speak on Wednesday at a webinar event hosted by the Economic Club of New York German chancellor Angela...
...Mr Johnson repeated on Sunday that he would like to thrash out a deal through bilateral talks with EU leaders — including Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron — but had been told that negotiations...
...While German chancellor Angela Merkel waited patiently on the red carpet, Mrs May’s aides struggled for what seemed like an eternity to release her from the locked car....
...Martin Vickers, one Tory Brexiter, said: “She is in danger. I personally know of two letters which went in last night.”...
...In the UK, the Vickers reforms have also called for banks to insulate their retail operations from riskier investment banking activities....
...Germany’s strong recent performance has been boosted by chancellor Angela Merkel’s election triumph. And in the UK, faith in an economic rebound has taken hold over the past few months....
...Mr Osborne was speaking in Berlin at the Weltwirtschaftsgipfel, an annual conference of global policy makers, including Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Wolfgang Schäuble, her finance minister....
...The proposals – presented on Wednesday by Peer Steinbrück, former finance minister and one of three leading SPD contenders to challenge Angela Merkel for the chancellorship – caused an instant storm of protest...
...There’s clearly a massive lobby operation under way to try to neuter Vickers before September 12.”...
...And lawmakers inched forward with their implementation of Dodd-Frank reforms in the US and Vickers retail ringfencing in the UK....
...Mr Cameron, meanwhile, unsheathed one of the few weapons he has to stop such a breakaway group, warning Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, that if the eurozone opted for a breakaway deal without British...
...We reveal tonight that the Chancellor will back the recommendations of Sir John Vickers for ringfencing of essential retail operations within banks....
...Vickers, by contrast, described himself as “agnostic on the question”....
...Gillian Tett: Beware a Hegelian touch of regulatory hubris Politicians should remember Hegel amid the new Basel, Dodd-Frank and Vickers reforms, writes the FT’s US managing editor....
...In adopting the Vickers Report’s recommendations, the UK is already at the forefront of profound changes....
...Responding to Mr Clegg’s comments, Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers’ Association, said: “A few banks got into difficulty but the majority did not and in any comment about banks it is...
...But the initial response from Angela Merkel has been negative, exactly as it has been in many earlier rounds of this particular debate....
...Angela Merkel, German chancellor, warns with only slight hyperbole that the euro’s failure would imperil decades of European integration....
...President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel see new flaws in an Anglo-American economic hegemony that they had long detested....
...The cocktail of measures, says Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers’ Association, is potentially poisonous for the City....
...Germany’s Angela Merkel, meanwhile, warned that the eurozone would go it alone if treaty change proved too difficult....
...Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers Association, adds: “There was a ball in the air and he caught it and ran with it.”...
...Angela Knight, chief executive of The British Bankers' Association, said persisting with an agenda to split big banks into smaller parts based on investment or retail banking would put the UK out of kilter...
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