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...Under Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany also occasionally abstained on crucial votes if the coalition partners in Berlin couldn’t agree on a common position, in what became known as the “German vote”....
...Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said this week in Belfast that conversations about a “new Ireland” were gaining traction and Irish reunification was “within touching distance”....
...According to the Netherlands, yes, write Andy Bounds and Alice Hancock....
...“I tell her — but Angela, what’s going on? How can this be?” he told a recent parliamentary hearing, in an account of their phone call. “She says, but Nicolas, have you not seen Fukushima?...
...Led by Weber, a Bavarian politician from the Christian Social Union, a party aligned with former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, the EPP is shifting its stances in the hope...
...Matt Hancock (Note: As of my last update in April 2023, Matt Hancock has not served as prime minister, but he is included here for completeness in case of any confusion or future relevance.)”...
...The topic became so heated in the run-up to Thursday’s vote that the European People’s party, the largest group in the parliament and political family of the former German chancellor Angela Merkel, accused...
...Before the January 12 world premiere of Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Adoration for the Prototype Festival, founding directors Kristin Marting and Beth Morrison spoke about how Prototype explores the “boundaries of...
...Professor Dame Angela McLean, the government’s current chief scientific adviser, referred to “Dr Death the Chancellor” in a private message to John Edmunds, professor of infectious disease modelling at the...
...Von der Leyen, who held successive posts in Angela Merkel’s governments, including defence minister, proposed incentivising Europe’s defence industry to ramp up production and promote consolidation....
...Matt Hancock, the then health secretary, was meanwhile “drowning in bullshit” and was “so far up [Johnson’s] arse his ankles are brown”, the man who heads the UK’s civil service said....
...Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the opposition Labour party, said it was right Sunak had published the figures “after much delay”....
...When UK health secretary Matt Hancock broke his own Covid rules, the information commissioner raided the homes of those suspected of leaking the CCTV footage because of a potential data protection breach...
...Warriors and mothers: For millennia, states have pressured their citizens into gendered roles for control, writes Angela Saini....
...I couldn’t get anyone to demonstrate to me that the venture capital relief had done any of what it said it should do,” said Labour MP and committee member Dame Angela Eagle, who was Exchequer Secretary to...
...Responding to his decision to step down, Angela Richardson, Tory MP for Guildford, described Raab on Twitter as a “fantastic Surrey colleague” adding that his “constituents will miss his dedication”....
...Angela Rayner, deputy Labour leader, has this week issued written questions to the government about the procedures around Zahawi’s original appointment as chancellor....
...Like Arsenal’s standing in the Premier League or Matt Hancock’s career in television, the Mary Jane shoe is rebounding in the fashion world, surprising everyone who’d written off dainty footwear for chunky...
...Under former chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany was among the 34 countries at COP26 in Glasgow that pledged to end public funding for coal, oil and gas projects overseas....
...The European parliament’s proposed amendments to the rules “leave a hell of a lot of woody biomass that can still be subsidised”, said Mary Booth, director of the Partnership for Policy Integrity....
...This desire to put a human face on sober institutions to win popularity continues today (see Matt Hancock, the former British health secretary, who has just come third in the reality TV show I’m a Celebrity...
...Susan Sontag, rumoured to pen “her essays in a marathon of typing, smoking, and speed”, and the novelist Mary McCarthy put in regular appearances....
...This year we have been robbed of some especially fine examples: along with Alley, we lost Robbie Coltrane, whose deliciously strong south Glaswegian brogue remained undimmed throughout his acting career; Angela...
...Aside from Angela Merkel, then Germany’s environment minister and COP president, the meetings were “totally male dominated”, recalls Yamin....
...Letter in response to this article: Balfour misplayed his hand by resigning in 1905 / From Angela Ellis-Jones, London SM1, UK...
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