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...Schmid added Germans also agreed with the chancellor about the risks of supplying Ukraine with “so impactful a weapon”....
...“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....
...Thomas Schmid, a former finance ministry official who was head of the Austrian sovereign wealth fund ÖBAG, was forced out of office in 2021. Last year Schmid agreed to turn crown witness in the probe....
...Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats and finance minister Christian Lindner of the liberal FDP are sceptical about such export controls....
...“This is the darkest day of Austrian parliamentarianism,” said Christian Hafenecker, general secretary of the FPÖ, on Thursday....
...At the heart of the criminal investigation into Kurz’s activities are allegations that, starting in 2016, he encouraged close ally Thomas Schmid, who then headed the finance ministry, to illicitly funnel...
...Other highlights include star soprano Marlis Petersen singing Strauss, orchestral concerts including violinist Benjamin Schmid and cellist Kian Soltani, and a revival of Andreas Homoki’s visually sumptuous...
...But Scholz’s role in the debate is key, and MPs from the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU) are increasingly critical of his stance....
...Two years ago it was Kurz himself who pulled the plug, after his vice-chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, of the Freedom Party, was filmed soliciting Russian influence in the Austrian media....
..., Heinz-Christian Strache, was filmed on the Balearic island soliciting what he thought was Russian help to influence the Austrian media....
...In a Bundestag debate on Thursday the new head of the Christian Democratic Union said the “hopelessly divided US Congress” was now “united in its view of Germany as woolly and unreliable”....
...“Corona meant that issues such as welfare and work played a big role in the campaign,” said Nils Schmid, a senior SPD lawmaker....
...“Any start-up of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline should be tied to security of supply for the eastern Europeans,” Roderich Kiesewetter, a senior foreign policy spokesman for Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union...
...Kurz and Bonelli both told the committee they had not been closely involved in Schmid’s appointment....
...As well as the current finance minister, former finance minister Hartwig Löger and the head of the country’s state holding company, Thomas Schmid, have also been named by prosecutors as suspects....
...The party’s foreign policy speaker Nils Schmid has made a mark with forceful views on China....
...Below the surface a fierce battle is raging for the soul of the Christian Democratic Union, a party that has governed Germany for 50 of the past 70 years and this year will stake its claim to a further four...
...“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....
...Andreas Nick, an MP with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, is one of those encouraged by Blinken’s book....
...Meanwhile, Christian Lindner, leader of the liberal FDP party, said: “A regime that organises murders by poisoning is no partner for big co-operative projects — and that includes pipeline projects.”...
...Friedrich Merz, a conservative politician who is vying to be the new head of Ms Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, exemplifies the more hawkish tone on China....
...“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....
...Ms Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party remains opposed....
...Christian Selmoni, Vacheron Constantin’s heritage director, says auctions play an important role in drawing attention to the brand’s history....
...But Norbert Röttgen, an MP from Ms Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and head of the Bundestag’s influential foreign affairs committee, said that was not enough....
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