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...Aiwanger was on Monday greeted with cheers and shouts of “Hubert” as he arrived to make a speech at the Gillamoos festival where Söder and Merz also appeared....
...In Poland’s elections on October 15, there is also a significant chance that the liberal, centrist coalition of Donald Tusk will return to power....
...During his own presidency, Donald Trump doubled down on that jibe, telling Merkel: “Angela, you gotta pay”. Trump’s logic was simple....
...The contest is a three-horse race between Friedrich Merz, a conservative, Armin Laschet, a moderate, and Norbert Röttgen, one of the party’s leading foreign policy experts....
...And if Joe Biden were to oust Donald Trump from the White House in seven months’ time, Mr Fink might himself become the ultimate embodiment of that clout: he is widely seen as a favourite to be Mr Biden’...
...The multilateral system has been destabilised by Donald Trump in the US and Brexit in the UK, and the advance of populist nationalism not just in newer EU members in the ex-communist east but in several...
...Martina Merz: third time’s a charm for Thyssenkrupp? Martina Merz has nerves of steel....
...Bloomberg profiles the candidates: “dark prince” Jens Spahn; AKK's defeated rival Friedrich Merz; towering Bavarian Markus Söder; and a name that will be familiar in Brussels circles, former MEP Armin Laschet...
...Friedrich Merz is a rising stars in Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party and one of its most gifted orators....
...Trans-Europe Express It means nothing to me, oh Berlin Donald Trump told his Ukrainian counterpart that Germany does “almost nothing for Ukraine . . . all they do is talk” according to the White House’...
...His backers hoped Merz would refashion the CDU along robustly conservative lines. Kramp-Karrenbauer immediately held out an olive branch to Merz’s camp....
...How, the questioner asked, would the three candidates to succeed Angela Merkel tackle the triple threats of Donald Trump, China and plastic rubbish?...
...Mr Merz came in at 33 per cent....
..., Austria’s centre-right chancellor whose coalition government includes the far-right Freedom party, and a friend of Richard Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany who is also gay and a big supporter of Donald...
...“This extension is as flexible as I expected, and a little bit shorter than I expected,” said Donald Tusk, European Council president....
...But a recent poll put Mr Merz, a conservative, clearly ahead of her....
...Mrs May spoke with Donald Tusk, the European Council president, on Sunday to discuss next steps....
...In response to “Friedrich Merz: conservative disrupter in the race to replace Merkel”, says: “But the mere fact that a retired politician is a serious candidate with a chance of winning the leadership of...
...Wolfgang Münchau thinks that Friedrich Merz is the conservative disrupter in the race to replace Angela Merkel....
...(FT) Merz’s Second Coming He was crushed by Angela Merkel and now he is back with an agenda. Friedrich Merz is angling for a comeback as leader of the Christian Democratic Union....
...It is widely thought that European Council president Donald Tusk might return to stand for the national presidency in 2020....
...An early poll put Mr Merz, a conservative, clearly ahead of Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer, a centrist who is seen as Ms Merkel’s natural heir....
...China and the EU seek to fill the leadership void following Donald Trump’s intention to withdraw, while global emissions have been rising....
...Trump watch The Guardian has incredible details of the cold war spying operation Czechoslovakian authorities carried out on Donald Trump — with the help of his first wife’s father....
...the EPP’s lead candidate for next year’s EU elections was the crowning moment of a two-day gathering of Europe’s centre-right political forces in Helsinki: a political jamboree where EU chiefs such as Donald...
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