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...German chancellor Olaf Scholz has pushed back against pressure to unblock delivery of the jets. His coalition partner, the Greens, have firmly opposed the move....
...parts or raw materials from China are at risk of falling foul of the US rules, as evidenced by a recent report by Human Rights Watch, which showed that many of the world’s biggest carmakers were buying aluminium...
...“I don’t want to talk ill of Germany, but it feels like everything is a bit tired here,” said Gert Röder, who is the sixth generation of his family to run a 208-year-old aluminium foundry based in Soltau...
...To tackle Germany’s lack of housing, chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government had promised to build 400,000 new flats a year....
...Instead of a trade war, they proposed a road map for agreement on issues such as strategic materials and decarbonising steel and aluminium....
...A statement issued by the German economy ministry on Friday said the government was placing Rosneft Deutschland GmbH and RN Refining & Marketing GmbH under the trusteeship of the Bundesnetzagentur (BNA),...
...Already 70 per cent of fertiliser making capacity and 50 per cent of aluminium production have shut down in Europe, he said....
...The socialist faction have been appeased by an earlier deadline for the end of free polluting permits for sectors covered by CBAM (such as fertilisers, aluminium and cement) by 2033....
...In Germany, elections in the state of Lower Saxony kept the ruling Social Democrats in pole position, a rare boost to the party of chancellor Olaf Scholz....
...German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s decision yesterday to suspend the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project was the first sign that Berlin might get serious in opposing Russia’s aggressions against Ukraine....
...The idea of a carbon club was embraced by German chancellor Olaf Scholz while finance minister under Angela Merkel’s coalition government....
...The Kremlin-backed oil producer has a 54 per cent stake in PCK Raffinerie GmbH, which operates the facility, alongside Shell and Italy’s Eni. Rosneft could not be reached for comment....
...Now Olaf Scholz, an SPD chancellor only a couple of months into office, has overturned decades of German certainties....
...Claire Jones Trade links The UK has threatened the US with higher retaliatory tariffs if it doesn’t lift the Trump-era duties on steel and aluminium....
...In any case, Olaf Scholz’s chancellery will no doubt retain a big say in trade policy. The most interesting part is the overall context....
...The idea is advocated by Nobel laureate William Nordhaus (he calls it a “climate club”), and recently adopted by Germany’s latest finance minister and likely soon-to-be-chancellor, Olaf Scholz....
...As well as aluminium, Rimowa now also makes ribbed cases from polycarbonate, but the fundamental qualities remain: lightness and extreme durability....
...“It’s not just our job to make sure this is well-regulated, this must be backed up by a stabilising institution,” said Mr Scholz....
...He was appointed to the role by Olaf Scholz, the former mayor of Hamburg who was sworn in as finance minister last week....
...The comments come in the wake of the US unveiling the controversial tariffs on steel and aluminium this month....
...Its first grooved (and now signature) aluminium alloy cases hit sales floors in 1950....
...Berlin on board Olaf Scholz, Germany’s new finance minister, has pledged to engage with Mr Macron’s euro reform plans and hammer out a deal by June on a common approach....
...Goldman’s revolving door Germany’s new deputy finance minister is Jörg Kukies — a Goldman Sachs banker and the first major appointment by the new minister, Olaf Scholz....
...LVMH, whose brands include Christian Dior, Givenchy and Louis Vuitton, said on Tuesday that it had reached a €640m deal with Rimowa, the Cologne-based company best known for its expensive aluminium suitcases...
...Rimowa’s trademark grooved aluminium suitcases have become a must-have for many of the world’s celebrity jet-set crowd....
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