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Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble are playing hardball. (Sean Gallup/AFP/Getty Images) BERLIN — There is a lot of brinkmanship going on in Europe as Greece teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. Germany in particular seems to...
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KOHL helped François Mitterrand when he was trying to win a referendum on the Maastricht treaty in 1992. Nicolas Sarkozy supported Angela Merkel when she sought re-election as German chancellor in 2009. So it is normal, Mrs Merkel says, that she should...
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KARLSRUHE, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 15: In this photo provided by the German Government Press Office German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C-R) has dinner with members of the German government cabinet and judges of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on... View Photo »
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We must meet the challenge swiftly, and strike a budget deal without trying to soften it.
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Fear is rising in some quarters that the Socialist Party candidate, François Hollande, will unseat President Nicolas Sarkozy, that his government will drive France hard to the left, and that he will fatally undermine the work that Sarkozy has done with...
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This often astronomical sum is a major reason companies aren’t performing more massive lay-offs than they already are. Any new indefinite contracts will only allow for severance pay of 33 days per year worked. Certainly, this move is in response to...
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It isn’t caused by any Greek cultural propensity to fecklessness either. And, despite the protest graffiti and the timeless appeal of Nazi references, the Greek tragedy is not a plot to restore an explicit German hegemony in Europe. Angela Merkel is no...
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KARLSRUHE, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 15: In this photo provided by the German Government Press Office German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for a group picture together with members of the German government cabinet and judges of the Federal Constitutional... View Photo »
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I think the number one issue in shaping this election is now sitting in Berlin with Angela Merkel
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He has championed political integration as being necessary for closer economic convergence. The price he has paid is of being Germany’s junior partner with his strings apparently being tugged by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The French remain...
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The chief executive of one of Germany's most respected manufacturers and an advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Greece to be kicked out of the European Union because it is an "unbearable" burden. "This state with its phantom pensioners...
About Angela Merkel
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Angela Dorothea Merkel (help·info) (IPA: [ˈaŋɡela doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛɐ̯kəl]) (born Angela Dorothea Kasner, 17 July 1954, in Hamburg, West Germany), is the Chancellor of Germany. Merkel, elected to the German Parliament from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 9 April 2000, and Chairwoman of the... Full Article
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