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Merkel hesitates over handshake with EU’s Ursula von der Leyen – video
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Angela Merkel, the outgoing chancellor of Germany, seemed wary of offering her hand for a full handshake with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, at a Brussels summit. Von der Leyen instead graspe...
‘A role model’: Obama pays tribute to Angela Merkel – video
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The former US president Barack Obama has paid tribute to Angela Merkel in a farewell video during what was expected to be the outgoing chancellor of Germany’s final meeting in Brussels. 'Thanks to you, the centre has ...
Angela Merkel calls for compromise amid row over Polish ECJ snub
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Angela Merkel, who earlier this week reflected on her deep hurt over Brexit, has called for European Union countries to compromise over their competing visions of integration, at what was being billed in Brussels as a...
Angela Merkel congratulates Olaf Scholz on German election success
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Angela Merkel and his main rival have congratulated Olaf Scholz on his weekend election win as he hopes to form a coalition that will make him Germany’s next chancellor. Merkel’s CDU-CSU conservative bloc slumped to i...
What is the legacy of the Angela Merkel era?
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The filmmaker and gay rights activist Rosa von Praunheim once confessed that he loved Angela Merkel, but hated her Christian Democratic Union party. This sense of Merkel as a morally attractive, quasi-presidential fig...
Die siening van die waarnemer oor die stryd om Angela Merkel op te volg
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Angela Merkel se lang afskeid as die kanselier van Duitsland eindig uiteindelik hierdie naweek namate stemme tydens die federale verkiesing getel word - ten minste in teorie. As die nuutste meningspeilings geglo moet word, daar sal ...
The sorrowful dominatrix: cartoonists Steve Bell and Martin Rowson on drawing Angela Merkel
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Sixteen years is a very long time in politics, and since 2005 we’ve had Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron (and Nick Clegg), Theresa May and Boris Johnson – while the Germans have just had Angela Merkel. It usual...
'Iemand wat weet wie sy is': die standvastige, subtiele styl van Angela Merkel
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'N Huis met vier verdiepings, op 'n diskrete afstand van Neuer-muur, Die luukse ontwerpersstrook van Hamburg, hou die geheime van Angela Merkel se suksesvolle sartoriese styl. Behalwe die modeontwerper Bettina Schoenbach, wie ...
Die Guardian -siening oor Europa na Merkel: probleme bestuur, nie opgelos nie
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As die opvolger van Angela Merkel hierdie Sondag tydens die verkiesing geïdentifiseer word, daardie persoon sal die eerste nuwe bekleër van Europa se magtigste verkose amp vir 16 jare. Die blote verandering van leierskap sal 'n skok wees ...
Germany decides: who will follow Angela Merkel?
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German voters will elect a new chancellor for the first time in 16 years on Sunday, as the Angela Merkel era ends How to listen to podcasts: alles wat u moet weet ...
Hoe die vlugtelingkrisis twee mites van Angela Merkel geskep het
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Toe Angela Merkel uittree as kanselier ná die verkiesing in Duitsland later hierdie maand, die huldeblyke sal sentreer in haar rol as die kop van die Westerse liberalisme; 'n eiland van stabiliteit, versigtigheid en openheid in 'n ...
Die Guardian -siening oor Angela Merkel: afskeid van 'n skans van stabiliteit
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Een van die mees kenmerkende politieke foto's van die afgelope tyd is tydens 'n G7 -beraad in Kanada geneem 2018. Vooroor leun oor 'n smal tafel met uitgestrekte hande, 'n Grimmige gesig Angela Merkel konfronteer Dona ...
Merkel urges Germans to back her party’s choice of successor
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Angela Merkel has used what is likely to be her last speech in the German parliament to make her most impassioned intervention in the electoral race so far, urging the public to vote for her party’s beleaguered candid...
The Guardian view on Germany’s election: struggling to move on from Merkel
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In September 1998, when a relatively youthful Gerhard Schröder defeated Helmut Kohl and ended his 16-year reign as German chancellor, the victorious leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) told supporters that the countr...
Merkel rejects deputy’s claim he is continuity candidate for chancellor
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Angela Merkel has waded into the fray of Germany’s election campaign by dismissing her centre-left vice-chancellor’s attempt to model himself as her continuity candidate, as her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) tries ...
Would-be successors to Angela Merkel clash in first of three TV debates
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The three politicians battling it out for the top job in German politics have clashed in a TV debate during which the leader of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats failed to regain lost momentum and ceded the role of ...