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...While an out-of-court settlement is the most likely eventual outcome, the personal animosity between Thomas Gottstein, the Credit Suisse chief executive, and Son means it is not a foregone conclusion....
...Most importantly, she can lose gracefully, with a courageous smile and the barest hint of bright tears, as when Chancellor Angela Merkel nominated Christian Wulff as German president in 2010 instead of her...
...Thomas Oppermann, chief whip of the SPD, said that Mr Geerkens’ comments to Spiegel magazine had “damaged the office and the credibility” of the president, and called for Mr Wulff to restore that credibility...
...A leading opposition politician, Thomas Oppermann, chief whip in the German parliament for the Social Democratic party, said on Tuesday that “the political grace period” was over for the president....
...Ms Merkel said she had picked Thomas de Maizière to become the new defence minister, opening the way for Hans-Peter Friedrich, a senior conservative member of parliament, to succeed Mr de Maiziere as interior...
...Christian Wulff, the country’s federal president, says the ECB’s actions are therefore “legally questionable”....
...Yet it was no less telling that on October 3, the 20th anniversary of reunification, Christian Wulff, the head of state, stated that “Islam belongs in Germany”....
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