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According to filings made by Mercury Public Affairs, a political strategy group contracted by Manafort, the former chancellor had met with several members of Congress in 2013 to lobby for Ukraine.

Coincidentally enough, President Barack Obama was also in Germany on Thursday talking with German chancellor Angela Merkel.

The man hoping to become Germany's next chancellor has been snubbed by the Italian president after calling Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo «two clowns».

Italy's president cancelled a dinner with the German opposition's chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrueck in Berlin on Wednesday after he described the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi and comic - turned - politician Beppe Grillo as «clowns».

I'm the chancellor of Cape Breton University, after all.

But the really chilly reception is found on the European stage, where German chancellor Angela Merkel has just outright rejected Sarkozy's desire to deal with budgetary woes in Greece as an internal EU matter.

Then there are the informal connections: Gerhard Schröder, who was Chancellor before Merkel, and Sigmar Gabriel, who is currently her vice chancellor, have both served as VW directors in their function as governors of Lower Saxony.

Sebastian Kurz is set to become the next chancellor of Austria and, at 31, the world's youngest leader.

Both Grillo and Berlusconi campaigned against the austerity measures implemented by technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti at the urging of Germany's conservative chancellor Merkel.

The chancellor will also reportedly commit to Conservative manifesto pledges made by the previous prime minister to raise the income tax threshold to # 12,500 and to raise the threshold for the 40p income tax rate to # 50,000.

The Autumn Statement is a mini-budget in which the chancellor updates the country on the government's taxation and spending plans, and it will be the new cabinet's first major economic announcement since May took over as prime minister.

In October, Hammond was forced to deny that he would resign as chancellor, after tensions within the cabinet arose from his repeated warnings about the «economic realities» of Brexit, which many pro-Leave ministers saw as overly pessimistic.

The chancellor recognised that seven years of austerity had left the British public feeling «weary» but said increasing tax to pump more money into the public sector was not the answer.

In 1933 a new chancellor implemented fiscal stimulus, and again the political ramifications were almost immediate.

An object lesson arrived in 2005, after her first run to become chancellor.

Perth Airport chairman and Curtin University chancellor Colin Beckett has taken the role as head of the Western Power board, with Iluka Resources chair Greg Martin appointed as his deputy.

She dispatched her vice chancellor to Washington last week to talk trade and prepare the ground for her one - day visit to the White House on Friday, April 27.

Perth's Murdoch University has joined the ranks of tertiary institutions appointing leading resources industry players as chancellors.

The policies this paper examines were implemented for two years and then cast aside when a new chancellor was appointed in 1933.

On Monday former chancellor Norman Lamont defended Hammond's stance, saying on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that «it is unavoidable that we have restraint on public spending,» adding: «it is not right for cabinet ministers to gang up on the chancellor in this way.

David Sobey served as the Halifax university's first lay chancellor from 2008 to 2010, and son Paul is following in his footsteps.

Having retired from Empire last year, Paul Sobey was announced as the next chancellor of Saint Mary's in October 2014.

One of the very greatest acts of statesmanship in the postwar world was when the founding chancellor of the German Federal Republic (West Germany), Konrad Adenauer, declined Stalin's offer of reunification in exchange for German neutrality in the Cold War.

University chancellor Dr. Mark A. Emmert said at the time, «I'd like to thank Mr. O'Neal for dramatically increasing the starting salary of this graduating class.»

«When I was 22, my dream job was to be chancellor of the New York City School system,» he remembers.

Nor is it going to open up its algorithmic black box, as European regulators like German chancellor Angela Merkel want it to do.

Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas is also calling for Osborne to step down as an MP and be stripped of his Privy Council membership, which gives the former Tory chancellor access to highly privileged government information.

German chancellor Angela Merkel distanced herself from the US and the UK during a campaign event in Munich on Sunday.

He was fascinated by the career of Frank Macchiarola, New York City's schools chancellor from 1978 to 1983 and a legendary educator who pushed for integration and better performance in public schools.

Her plans did not include being chancellor in a minority government, she said after meeting President Frank - Walter Steinmeier.

Things have indeed changed since the time when Otto von Bismark, the chancellor of the German First Reich, arrogantly opined that «the whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.»

Last year the movement inspired college students to take up the mantel, with some successes (the system president and chancellor of the University of Missouri resigned over outcry they failed to address campus racism).

The pictures of a beaming German chancellor and Chinese prime minister extolling the Sino - German «dream team» projects seem to be souvenirs of another time.

Writing in the Telegraph on Wednesday night in conjunction with f ormer chancellors Lord Norman Lamont and Lord Nigel Lawson, the open letter accused the BoE and Treasury of «peddling phoney forecasts and scare stories to back up the attempts of David Cameron and George Osborne to frighten the electorate into voting Remain.»

«As chancellor, I will do everything to ensure that this country is well managed in the difficult weeks to come.»

Should Hammond be removed as chancellor it is unclear whether he would remain in the cabinet in a lesser role, or be removed entirely from May's inner circle.

Murdoch University's recent public profile announcements have included a WA Citizen of the Year award for chancellor Geoffrey Bolton, a high national ranking in the latest round of Australian Research Council grants, and new accreditation for the veterinary school.

Born and educated in the former East Germany and a united Germany's chancellor since 2005, Merkel is perhaps the best - known female world leader since Britain's Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher — with whom she's often compared.

Former New York City Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew, worried that the Internet age was passing by too many kids in his urban districts, provided the B - schoolers with three beta - test schools and agreed to join the duo's previously nonexistent board of advisers.

Despite his close working relationship with Stronach on Magna's board after serving as chancellor from 1986 to 1997, Vranitzky would not comment on the businessman's ambitions.

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras, left, and German chancellor Angela Merkel.

Then, in the early 2000s, university chancellor Milton Wong wandered into his office.

While the Daily Mail opts for a huge picture of the chancellor laughing during his budget speech, while «hammering the self - employed.»

Germany took in more than 1 million refugees in 2015, according to Reuters, testing Angela Merkel's popularity as chancellor.

While a university lecturer in Singapore, American travel writer Paul Theroux recalled being accosted by his vice chancellor and told his hair was too long.

In a swipe at the German chancellor, President Joachim Gauck urged Angela Merkel on Sunday to explain to Germans what her euro policies mean.

While on the topic of innovation, the chancellor also joked about new technologies assisting unskilled drivers, especially with parking.

Austria's chancellor, Christian Kern, called on Monday for an EU - wide ban on Turkish rallies, saying it would take pressure off individual countries.

Gauck is not the only politician in the country who feels the chancellor has a lot more explaining to do.

The chancellor said that the idea was «not really thought through.»