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...Standing behind German chancellor Konrad Adenauer is a young, dark-haired man with a broad smile: Ernst Albrecht, von der Leyen’s father....
...Konrad Szymański, Poland’s former European affairs minister, said Brussels had been slow to act....
...It could be that even the oracle gets it wrong,” said Michael von Abercron, 68, the local CDU Bundestag member. “You feel a certain sense of insecurity. It’s evident in many voters.”...
...Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, said she was “deeply worried” about his health....
...But the aspirations of Ursula von der Leyen, the new commission president, and Charles Michel, the new European Council president, are set to be overshadowed by a festering row over the EU’s upcoming budget...
...A rite of passage were the debating courses of the conservative Konrad Adenauer Foundation, where political hopefuls honed their speaking skills....
...She sees comparisons with the 1963 Elysée Treaty inked by Charles de Gaulle of France and West Germany’s Konrad Adenauer....
...If I think of chancellors — Willy Brandt — Ostpolitik; Konrad Adenauer — Westbindung [anchoring Germany in the western alliance]; Kohl — reunification; what will your legacy be?...
...Mr Reynders is a candidate to become one of the team of commissioners who will staff the EU’s executive arm under Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming president of the European Commission....
...And when Ursula von der Leyen, the serving defence minister, was elected European Commission president last month, she took action....
...In doing so he surpassed the tenure of Konrad Adenauer, West Germany’s first leader and Kohl’s model and mentor....
...She lags behind only Helmut Kohl, who scored 98,5 per cent in 1990, in the euphoria of German reunification, and Konrad Adenauer, Germany’s first postwar chancellor, who three times achieved 100 per cent...
...Tannenberg made idols of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, the German military commanders....
...Perhaps the most celebrated florilegium is the Hortus Eystettensis of 1613, a catalogue of the choicest plants in the Bavarian garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince-bishop of Eichstätt, who did not...
...So you see I’m not a strict dogmatist – Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern ? [What interests me about what I said yesterday? – a quotation from Konrad Adenauer.]...
...Konrad von Finckenstein, chairman of the CRTC, said the new regulations ”will preserve the plurality of editorial voices and the diversity of programming available to Canadians, both locally and nationally...
...Absent this year are Derek Johns, who is taking a sabbatical; Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, now a consultant, who went out on a high note last year when she soldthe entire contents of her stand on the first...
...In the great music room with its exquisite chequered wood floors I admired the Fragonard-style painting of Konrad von Sellenbüren, the monastery’s founder, seeing his angels over the mountain....
...Opera, meanwhile, offers numerous examples of successful collaborative relationships - Gilbert & Sullivan, Strauss and von Hoffmansthal, Lloyd Webber and Rice....
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