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...Amanda Walters, director of the Centre for Progressive Change, welcomed the announcement....
...He quotes another 20th-century guru, the philosopher Walter Benjamin: “He said that sometimes it’s not the big events that capture a moment, sometimes it is the garbage of civilisation which captures that...
...Angela Merkel, German chancellor from 2005 to 2021, is faulted for pulling her punches with Putin and supporting Nord Stream 2 to the hilt....
...Many Germans are nostalgic for the days of Angela Merkel, chancellor between 2005 and 2021, whose reign is seen as a period of relative calm in domestic politics....
...“Isabelle Huppert or maybe Angela Merkel,” he grins....
...He unsuccessfully ran for the SPD leadership in 2019, in a race that was ultimately won by two leftwingers, Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans....
...But what of former chancellor Angela Merkel, the ultimate arbiter of national strategy for 16 years between 2005 and 2021?...
...Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a former foreign minister, said Germany must “learn its lesson” from Russia’s war on Ukraine....
...It is, however, missing the point to call for Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the president and another former foreign minister, or former chancellor Angela Merkel to be hauled in front of a parliamentary commission...
...It all began when Olaf Scholz, Germany’s SPD chancellor, reproved Ukraine’s government for indicating last month that Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German head of state (and another SPD luminary), wasn’t...
...The CDU chancellor-candidate was in conversation with the author of a new biography of Angela Merkel....
...“We do the right thing but we always do it a bit late,” said Christoph Heusgen, former chancellor Angela Merkel’s foreign policy adviser, last week....
...In 2005, Steinmeier was appointed foreign minister in Angela Merkel’s first government, a “grand coalition” between her centre-right CDU/CSU and the SPD....
...“But Habeck is atypical,” wrote Walter Grünzweig, a professor of literature at Dortmund Technical University, in the European Review of Books....
...“Now we must also scale and seize the heights of culture,” declared Walter Ulbricht, the first leader of the Socialist Unity party....
...The 17-year-old student was a baby when Angela Merkel became Germany’s first female chancellor in November 2005....
...Steinmeier was also foreign minister in the government led by Angela Merkel before being re-elected as president earlier this year....
...With just two weeks to go until the country’s federal elections, Scholz is emerging as the odds-on favourite to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor. It’s an extraordinary development....
...“Ohhhh Angela Merkel! Ohhhh!” they went on....
...Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s president, is said to be particularly contemptuous of Johnson because he thinks that the British prime minister treats politics as a game....
...On Monday, Germany’s president Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked the unvaccinated to get a jab, saying they were putting their own health and the wider public at risk....
...Angela Merkel made a rare intervention in the campaign this week, attacking Scholz for refusing to rule out a coalition with Die Linke....
...Should the negotiations on a “traffic-light” alliance succeed it will mark a decisive break with the era of Angela Merkel, the country’s outgoing leader....
...Chancellor Angela Merkel’s departure might be a moment for Berlin to detach yesterday’s sincerely-held hopes from today’s harsh truths. The signs are not encouraging....
...The WSJ report described the case of one patient who was recently transferred from a posting in a European capital to be treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland....
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