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...Yet for the hundreds of family-run businesses that annually ferry more than 100mn tonnes of dry cargo such as coal, steel and grain on the Rhine, using nimbler vessels such as the MS Salisso, which can carry...
...There is already speculation that Merkel will have to remain as acting chancellor into 2022 — though Scholz said on Sunday night that it was his “ambition” to form a new government sooner “so that Ms Merkel...
...The second point concerns the CDU’s political direction after Ms Merkel’s departure....
...And he has Ms Güler, the integration secretary, who is the daughter of Turkish immigrants....
...Armin Laschet, prime minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, has been elected leader of the governing Christian Democratic Union on a promise of continuity with the centrist course of Angela...
...Mr Laschet, the regional premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, represents the kind of open centrism that enabled Ms Merkel to notch up four consecutive election victories....
...Mr Laschet, prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, beat rival Friedrich Merz in a digital leadership election on Saturday....
...But critics point out that a lot of its poll strength can be attributed to Ms Merkel, who will not be standing next year....
...Mr Röttgen’s career seemed to be over in 2012 when he lost in elections in North Rhine-Westphalia to the SPD, and Ms Merkel subsequently sacked him as environment minister....
...This weekend, he might be elected leader of Ms Merkel’s party....
...Most polls of CDU members put Mr Merz in the lead, with Mr Laschet, an ideological ally of Ms Merkel, trailing badly....
...But in 2002 Ms Merkel shoved him aside to become leader of the CDU parliamentary group....
...She had succeeded Ms Merkel, who retired as party leader in 2018....
...His win represents a triumph for centrists in the CDU, who want it to continue the moderate policies pursued by Ms Merkel during her 16 years as chancellor....
...The FT View is that Mr Laschet represents the kind of open centrism that enabled Ms Merkel to notch up four consecutive election victories....
...Of the current competitors — Armin Laschet, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia; businessman Friedrich Merz; and Norbert Röttgen, chairman of the Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee — none has proved...
...Though her party has roots in Italy’s postwar neo-Fascist movement, Ms Meloni has projected a more moderate and serious image during the coronavirus crisis than the bombastic Mr Salvini and has started to...
...Last month’s spike in Covid-19 cases at a meat processing facility in North Rhine-Westphalia grabbed headlines for what it revealed about the virus’s prevalence in industrial settings....
...But Ms Skierka pointed out that in many cases the aid programmes had no way of properly verifying applicants’ identities....
...Ms Merz has vowed to examine all options for steel before making a final decision....
...He deserves credit for helping to win Ms Merkel round to the idea of EU borrowing to finance a European rescue fund....
...Strasbourg has a long history of green activism, including a push to clean up the once heavily polluted Rhine and the campaign against nuclear power....
...But Ms Merkel said that Germany was still on the “thinnest of ice”....
...North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state and its industrial powerhouse, has demanded a rapid exit from the pandemic mitigation measures, which have devastated the region’s economy....
...Armin Laschet, prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, said on Tuesday that he would run for CDU chief and his erstwhile rival Jens Spahn, the health minister, would stand...
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