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...“That would substantially dampen economic growth,” said Sebastian Dullien, an economist at the Hans Böckler Foundation, a think-tank. Politically, he said, the impact could be more immediate....
...Threats by the aggrieved former domestic intelligence chief Hans-Georg Maassen to create his own hard-right party may well prove ineffectual, too....
...The three parties of chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “traffic light” coalition — his own Social Democrats, alongside the Greens and Free Democrats — are supported by just 34 per cent of voters at present, the pollster...
...Still, the party has benefited from public anger with Scholz and his management of a worsening economy....
...The AfD is at present polling at 22 per cent, far ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats and only four points behind the CDU....
...logistics magnate Klaus Michael-Kühne; Roland Berger, founder of the eponymous international management consultancy; Swiss chocolate group Lindt & Sprüngli’s chair Ernst Tanner; Austrian industrialist Hans...
...Han singled out real estate and consumer spending as two areas for attention....
...However, its success put Scholz’s government in a quandary....
...But in February, Scholz froze it. In August, Wolfgang Kubicki, a senior figure in the Free Democrats, who belong to Scholz’s three-party coalition, suggested opening the pipeline....
...So when Scholz went to China, in fact just before he went, he said that there would be no decoupling between Germany and China....
...Germany concedes move to cap gas prices German chancellor Olaf Scholz dropped his opposition to an EU gas price cap after late-night summit talks, conceding: “It makes sense.”...
...“Germany remains a . . . paradise for organised crime,” said Fabio De Masi, an MP with the hard-left Die Linke. ” Hans Michelbach of the CDU/CSU, said the investigation into the FIU had underscored problems...
...“If he’s accusing the judiciary of dubious motives, he’s deliberately undermining [its] standing as an independent third pillar of our constitutional state,” said Hans Michelbach, a senior CSU MP and member...
...It comes just weeks before Olaf Scholz, of the centre-left Social Democrats, takes the reins of Europe’s largest economy....
...Among them was a close Rutte ally, Hans van Baalen, who died earlier this year....
...Hans Michelbach, outgoing finance spokesman of Merkel’s CDU party in parliament, summed up these fears by saying that Weidmann’s departure was a “disastrous signal for the future [of] monetary and fiscal...
...Hans Michelbach, an MP for the governing CDU/CSU bloc, says the inquiry had revealed that Wirecard spent €62.4m just in the four years from 2016 until 2020 on lobbying activities — an unusually large figure...
...Hans Michelbach, finance spokesman of the CDU’s sister party CSU, said the SPD didn’t need advisers “but claqueurs for their politics of a return to tax increases and public debt”....
...Herr Scholz’s reform plans barely address them.”...
...On Tuesday, chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz said he was in favour of mandatory vaccinations for everyone....
...She was speaking to MPs a day after finance minister Olaf Scholz appeared before the inquiry....
...Hufeld and his deputy Elisabeth Roegele, who was also questioned by MPs on Friday, were both ousted by finance minister Olaf Scholz in January as part of sweeping reforms of BaFin designed to strengthen...
...Hans Michelbach of the CSU, the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, said the Social Democrats were trying to turn Germany back into a “debtor country”....
...Hans Michelbach, a senior leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union, the sister party of Ms Merkel’s CDU, said: “The SPD is deeply divided and will disintegrate further.”...
...Olaf Scholz, finance minister, also insisted that public investment was increasing, and would reach €43bn next year....
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