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The World from Berlin: 'Westerwelle Is Like a Would-Be Facebook Friend You Can't Ignore'
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German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle during his recent state visit to Israel. Guido Westerwelle has concluded his first trip to Israel as Germany's new foreign minister. Germany's past and his own made the trip a tense one. Full Article at Spiegel Online
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German chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet agreed today to extend a part-time work scheme that encourages firms to pare back the hours of their employees rather than fire them. Full Article at Irish Times
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at an European Union summit at the European Council headquarters on November 19, 2009 in Brussels. View Photo »
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I can tell you that the last funds (received by) General Motors have been paid back, which means that the Opel operation has not cost the German taxpayer a cent.
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The E.U.-China annual summit is due to take place on Nov. 30 in Nanjing. Since 2005, and the E.U.'s last-minute failure to agree to lift its arms embargo against China--in place since 1989--Beijing has appeared to run out of patience both with the E.U.' Full Article at Forbes
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Berlin -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday she was expecting a "comprehensive thank-you letter" from General Motors for huge loans to keep the auto maker's Opel unit afloat, which she said had now been repaid. Full Article at Expatica
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Haven't the 20th anniversary celebrations of the overthrow of communism been miserable? Full Article at The Independent
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a session of the lower house of parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin on November 12, 2009. View Photo »
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I told [US] President [Barack] Obama, I told [French] President [Nicolas] Sarkozy, I told [German] Chancellor Angela Merkel that we will not get good things out of Iran if we corner them. You need to create space to talk
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GM is no longer in hock with Germany. They paid back all of the €1.5b bridge loan Opel had received from Berlin to keep it afloat until it was taken over by Magna and Sberbank. As we all know, this didn’t happen. Full Article at The Truth About Cars
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The year 2009 is definitely Presidential year; Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th, and first African American President of the United States, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the world's first... Full Article at Dominican Today
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. Full Article
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Heads of state accompany German Chancellor Angela Merkel (4-L) after they walked through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin late on November 9, 2009, during celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the lower house of parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin November 10, 2009. Merkel called on US car giant General Motors to foot the bill for restructuring its troubled European subsidiary Opel after it decided to keep the unit rather than sell it.
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BERLIN - NOVEMBER 09: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) points on as German President Horst Koehler gestures on a reception at Bellevue Castle on November 9, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
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BERLIN - NOVEMBER 09: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and spectators watch as giant, painted styrofoam dominoes topple along the route of the former Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate on November 9, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
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I can tell you that the last funds (received by) General Motors have been paid back, which means that the Opel operation has not cost the German taxpayer a cent.
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I told [US] President [Barack] Obama, I told [French] President [Nicolas] Sarkozy, I told [German] Chancellor Angela Merkel that we will not get good things out of Iran if we corner them. You need to create space to talk
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I can tell you that the last funds for Opel have been paid back by General Motors ... I expect at least a thank you letter from General Motors in a few years.
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I told President Obama, I told President Sarkozy, I told Prime Minister Angela Merkel that we will not get good things out of Iran if we corner them. You need to create space to talk
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I can tell you that the last funds for Opel have been paid back by General Motors ... I expect at least a thank you letter from General Motors in a few years.
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Should German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her 26 colleagues from the European Union follow this example this evening in Brussels, there would not be much left to talk about. Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker would get the job of first permanent president of the EU. And the British foreign...
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Global cooperation is at the essence of the Copenhagen conference
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It is a caricature of democracy. We have the feeling that the 27, especially [German Chancellor] Angela Merkel and [French President] Nicolas Sarkozy are looking for people who won't overshadow them
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We have started this year in a difficult financial crisis ... We in the G20 have agreed to cooperate internationally. But that would not count for much if we were to fail at the climate conference.
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The guest list in Berlin is an impressive one. Chancellor Angela Merkel is expecting numerous world leaders to attend, including French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, among others. Surely it is an honour to be a part of it
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The political commitment to that should and must come in Copenhagen
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Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel are not terribly enthusiastic. (Italian Prime Minister) Silvio Berlusconi remains his strongest backer
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We will make it very clear that we continue to keep ambitious goals for Copenhagen ... We must do everything in our power to see to it that a binding agreement is reached.
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The German people have dissolved a marriage of convenience and Angela Merkel can return to her plans from 2005 to form a non-socialist government with the liberals
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Germany sees Serbia's EU prospects very clearly, and we will be working together on that
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President Hamid Karzai congratulates Madam Angela Merkel on wining the parliamentary election held Sunday and hoped that relations between Afghanistan and Germany would further develop under her leadership
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For months, the General Motors was not in a position even to nearly fulfil its responsibility towards Opel
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This is an evening in which Angela Merkel has achieved her goal to form the government she wants
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For us, Nov. 11 is a day of peace in Europe and the fall of the wall is a day of freedom
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We expect General Motors quickly to present a reliable concept that gives Opel Europe and the German sites the chance of a good future
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I will make a special personal effort to achieve this. And of course if it is successful, yes, I will go to Copenhagen
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The European Union has developed clear and unambiguous negotiating positions. We now want contributions from the US and from countries like China and India
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The European Union has developed clear and unambiguous negotiating positions. We now want contributions from the US and from countries like China and India
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A failure of the world climate conference in Copenhagen would set back international climate policy by years
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This solution can only succeed if General Motors carries the main part of the restructuring with its own funds
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