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...Christian Schulz, an economist at Citi, says that the official forecasts appear too optimistic and it is more likely there will be “virtually no growth for the rest of the year”....
...Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, said: “The tax rises have been smuggled in under the cover of the pandemic,” adding that they were “needed to fund social care and the NHS and had literally nothing to...
...Letter in response to this article: Outlook under Labour: the view from the IFS / From Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies...
...Christian Schulz, Citi’s UK economist, said the prospect of trade barriers would soon put a stop to an initial relief rally after a Conservative victory....
...Schulz-Asche, the Green MP, says the closures were “completely inappropriate”. “When you shut borders, social, professional and economic contacts collapse.”...
...Martin Schulz, SPD leader and foreign minister-designate, has reinforced that impression....
...Paul Burges, a retired railway worker, said a lot of the young people he saw in Hanover were looking at their phones while Mr Schulz spoke. “They’re just not interested in politics,” he said....
...If the talks were not agreed by then, they would be “deemed to have failed”, the wing’s chief Paul Ziemiak told Bild am Sonntag....
...At Vulture, he talked about dating Ivanka Trump, how Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen “plays just like Hendrix”, and how when he met The Beatles he thought they were “the worst musicians in the world”....
...Armin-Paul Hampel of the anti-immigration AfD reacts to the first exit polls in the German general election in Berlin....
...Tony Barber explains that six months after the elections, Angel Merkel is about to form a government with Martin Schulz while both leaderships keep at least one eye on mollifying their party supporters....
...Comment by Paul A Myers on “The enigma that is Melania Trump” It is doubtful that Melania Trump is “overwhelmed” by her marriage. One suspects that it is pretty light duty....
...Martin Schulz has European experience and the right policies.” But Mr Schulz is struggling: the Forsa poll showed his support rate among the 18-21 cohort was 21 per cent....
...In Germany, Mr Schulz, leader of the Social Democrat party, is also making waves....
...Germany’s SPD has recently revived in the polls under the leadership of Martin Schulz, a politician not involved in the ruling coalition in Berlin....
...After the coalition Paul McClean outlines the latest Brexit timeline....
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...The latest German polls show the incumbent Angela Merkel level pegging with Martin Schulz, a former president of the European Parliament....
...“Close to its peak” is the verdict of Paul Hollingsworth at Capital Economics, who expects inflation to fall back from a four-year high in 2018 after peaking at 3 per cent: The drop in the pound has fed...
...Leader of the diminished SPD Martin Schulz has nominated the party’s former labour minister Andrea Nahles to head up the party’s parliamentary grouping....
...“Our base case is for a Macron victory in France and potentially a Schulz victory in Germany....
...“There are no solo players,” Paul Hampel, a senior AfD official, said last week....
...Schulz sass Martin Schulz offered backhanded praise to predecessor Sigmar Gabriel for getting out the way of the Schulz surge....
...Paul Oakden, its chairman, said he had decided not to suspend Mike Hookem, the other Ukip MEP involved in the confrontation....
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