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...In the process he became, in the words of Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, head of the Bundestag’s defence committee, “more a politician than a diplomat — loud, awkward and extremely disputatious”....
...Yet the precise number of those in Mr Tahmasebi’s position is currently unknown....
...One of the big beasts of Brussels, who has so far spent most of his life in European rather than domestic politics, he is still relatively unknown inside Germany....
...The score isn’t exactly unknown here. Still, Gilbert felt the need to lecture the audience about its structure for 15 minutes....
...Klaus Zimmermann, of the Berlin-based DIW economic institute, notes that “the political debate always moves between the two poles of equality and efficiency....
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