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The World from Berlin: Gauck Will Be 'an Unpredicable President Who Irritates'
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Chancellor Angela Merkel nominated Joachim Gauck for the role of German president on Sunday, backing a candidate she had previously rejected for the post. German commentators on Monday say the popular pro-democracy activist is a good choice, but warn tha
New president nominated
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A demonstrator holds a sign supporting German politician Joachim Gauck as president. Photo: Reuters BERLIN. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition and opposition parties have nominated Joachim Gauck, a 70-year-old human-rights hero, as German Presid
German MPs from back human rights activist to be next president
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Germany’s government and the two major opposition parties have said they will jointly nominate Joachim Gauck, a human rights activist originally from East Germany, to be the country’s next president. Angela Merkel said her coalition government, and the c
Gauck hailed by press in Germany
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20 February 2012 Last updated at 07:44 ET A man in Berlin shows support for Joachim Gauck with his "Citizens for Gauck" poster The nomination of Joachim Gauck for the post of German president has been broadly welcomed by the press after the resignation o
German parties agree on Joachim Gauck for President
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Germany's government and the two major opposition parties said last night that they would jointly nominate former East German human rights activist Joachim Gauck to be the country's next president. Chancellor Angela Merkel said her centre-right coalition
Merkel government 'nearly fell' over choice of rights activist Joachim Gauck as presidential candidate
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Joachim Gauck to be named new German presidentAngela Merkel's party forced to cave in and accept opposition candidate she publicly opposed two years ago Angela Merkel's German government 'nearly collapsed' in a row over who should be the country's new pr
Outfoxed by the Opposition: Defeat in Presidential Battle Leaves Merkel Isolated
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In accepting the opposition's candidate for the next German president, Angela Merkel has suffered the bitterest defeat of her chancellorship. Her junior coalition partner, the FDP, teamed up with the two main opposition parties to push through their choi
Letter from Europe: Balancing Business and Human Rights
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BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel rolled out the red carpet for Nursultan A. Nazarbayev this month. Mr. Nazarbayev has been the president of Kazakhstan since 1991 when the Soviet Union broke up. Since independence, he has ruled with an iron hand, human r
A painful submission or Merkel's masterpiece?
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Following the resignation in disgrace of Christian Wulff on Friday, Germany was set for an embarrassing search for its third head of state in two years. But by Sunday, there was a broad political consensus for the man Wulff defeated two years ago: Joachi
Germany's Next President: 'I'm No Superman'
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Joachim Gauck could help repair the damage that Christian Wulff did to the German presidency. The country's next head of state is a modest man, but also a fearless democrat, and is unlikely to shy away from controversy. The former East German civil right
Germany battles over the future of solar energy
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BERLIN — Last year Germany produced a record amount of energy from solar panels installed on rooftops and in fields across the country. With a total of about 25 gigawatts of installed panels, Germany now has half of the world's entire solar energy capaci
Coalition smarts after presidential nomination fight
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition was smarting on Monday after an internal fight over the nomination of Joachim Gauck for the German presidency. Michael Kretschmer, the deputy parliamentary leader of Merkel's conservative Christian Democr
Merkel as Debt Crisis Iron Lady Bucks German Street on Greek Aid
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Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Angela Merkel is having a Margaret Thatcher moment. Having spent six years in office defying comparison with Britain’s first woman prime minister, Merkel is being likened to Thatcher as she steers Europe’s response to the financial
Germany president row shakes Merkel’s coalition
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BERLIN, Feb 20 — Angela Merkel's conservatives accused their coalition partner on Monday of a "massive breach of trust" in backing opposition candidate Joachim Gauck for the German presidency, a move which forced the chancellor to support him despite dee
Former East German rights activist to become German President
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Former East German civil rights activist and protestant pastor Joachim Gauck has been nominated as a consensus candidate to become Germany's next president, two days after the resignation of Christian Wulff over allegations of corruption. Chancellor Ange
Merkel as Europe’s Debt Crisis Iron Lady Bucks German Street on Greek Aid
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Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel named Joachim Gauck, a pro-democracy activist from the former East Germany, as the unity candidate for the mainly ceremonial role of German president after the resignation of the incumbent amid corruption a
Merkel Names Gauck as Unity Candidate for German Presidency
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Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel named Joachim Gauck, a pro-democracy activist from the former East Germany, as the unity candidate for the mainly ceremonial role of German president after the resignation of the incumbent amid corruption a
Euro in danger: Disintegrating Greek economy is a warning to rest of Europe
5 hours ago

Euro in danger: Disintegrating Greek economy is a warning to rest of Europe Feb 20 2012 by Torcuil Crichton ON Friday, people queued in happy, orderly lines outside banks in Paris to cash in the last of their French francs. It wasn’t a Northern Rock-styl
Merkel Names Gauck as Unity Candidate for German Presidency
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Joachim Gauck, former East German rights activist, and Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor. Joachim Gauck, former East German rights activist, and Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor. Photographer: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) --
Activist nominated as German president
7 hours ago

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition and opposition parties joined Sunday to nominate Joachim Gauck, a 70-year-old human rights hero, as German president after Christian Wulff resigned over corruption allegations. Merkel announced the decision i

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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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