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
"We certainly could not ignore the issue of preserving the JCPOA on Iran's nuclear programme, which is vitally important not only for the region but also for the whole world," he said.
Zelensky said a new exchange of prisoners would take place between Ukraine and pro-Moscow separatists by the end of this year.
Merkel further said, "To be aware of this responsibility is part of our national identity, our self-understanding as an enlightened and free society".
The far-right AfD also predicted an end of the coalition, with its co-leader Joerg Meuthen forecasting that "it will break up".
The suspect was overpowered by other people present, one of whom was severely injured by the attacker.
