German Experiment
Scholz (63), an experienced politician who was finance minister in the outgoing “grand coalition” of the SPD and conservatives, said that fighting the pandemic would be his top priority.
Scholz (63), an experienced politician who was finance minister in the outgoing “grand coalition” of the SPD and conservatives, said that fighting the pandemic would be his top priority.
The “Merkel-raute” was noticed during a photoshoot for Stern magazine in 2002 for the first time
Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, where Putin was a KGB operative, refused to be intimidated by the orchestrated machismo
According to the latest opinion poll results, the latecomer Social Democratic Party, with Finance Minister Olaf Scholz as its Chancellor candidate, tops the list by only 1 to 4 percentage points.
The German chancellor is making her 19th and likely final official visit to the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting with President Joe Biden
Earlier, the Syrian regime and Iranian-backed groups also launched a ground offensive in Aleppo province, a designated de-escalation zone, forcing at least 13,000 more civilians to move toward Turkey’s border.
While the contours of the political landscape are as yet unclear, there is little doubt that Ms Merkel’s position ~ pivotal in the context of the migrants issue ~ has considerably weakened in the aftermath of the resignation.
The conference in Berlin of 11 countries was aimed at bringing an end to the fighting between the UN-recognised government in Tripoli led by the Prime Minister, Fayez al-Sarraj, and the Libyan National Army.
On Sunday, Germany will host a summit bringing together foreign powers and the Libyan rival camps backed by them to try to end the war over Tripoli and resume talks on a power-sharing deal.
From 2017 to 2019, the number of both short- and long-term visas granted to applicants from Kolkata has jumped by 60 per cent from 5,800 to 9,225.
