Sentences with phrase «german chancellor»

Named after German chancellor Otto Von Bismarck to entice German immigrants to move to town.

Gazprom did indeed do this, by employing former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on a lavish salary, as a reward for his imposing a phase - out of nuclear energy in Germany.

Prof John Schellnhuber, a climate scientist and former adviser to German chancellor Angela Merkel called the Apollo plan «truly ingenious» and said it «could well be a tipping point» in tackling climate change.

I think that corrupt politicians in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry (like former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder) are a bigger problem.

Reuters reports that climate policy remains an EU priority for German chancellor Angela Merkel.

For example, in Berlin several hundred people, climate pirates, gathered, all disguised as Angela Merkels to push the German chancellor towards progressive climate policies.

The success of 2018 in international climate policy also depends on the German chancellor Merkel: she will host ministers from across the world at the Petersberg Dialogue on 18 June — a great chance to prepare a success of COP24 in Katowice.

Intense bilateral discussions between Cameron, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and other EU leaders over the last week tried to find ways of placating the Poles, who kept open their option of vetoing the summit outcome until the end.

Already two of Obama's colleagues, German chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron, have stated they will not be attending.

The Tate Britain show includes his odd portrait of the DJ Tony Blackburn as a dark three - leaf clover, and another of German chancellor Angela Merkel as an expanse of green blankness with pale lips and a yellow chin.

The statue, titled Him, is made of wax and portrays the former German chancellor as a young schoolboy kneeling in prayer.

Heinrich Riethmuller, chairman of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, made a direct plea at Frankfurt Book Fair to German chancellor Angela Merkel to «stop... Read more

The top - level meeting will pit German chancellor Angela Merkel against her increasingly unified partners, France, Italy and Spain, which are determined to win concessions from Europe's economic powerhouse.

Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.

John Redwood urges David Cameron to warn German chancellor during her visit to London that Britain may vote to exit

Angela Merkel's attacks on President Trump make her an instant favorite in anti-Trump precincts, but making the case for the German chancellor on the merits isn't so easy.

Jean - Claude Juncker should become the next president of the European Commission - even if there is no unanimity over the issue, German chancellor Angela Merkel says.

Prime minister Gordon Brown hosted French president Nicolas Sarkozy, German chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian prime minister Romano Prodi and EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso for talks at Downing Street.

Like being made to watch the England football team lose 4 - 1 to Germany, in the company of the German chancellor.

Merkel's visit comes as a new poll reveals that the German chancellor is now rated more favourably by British people than our own prime minister.

By endorsing Lagarde Britain is showing respect for a currency that it spurned — a decision that deeply upset the former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder who felt that Tony Blair lied to him over his intentions.

He mentions a meeting with French president Nicolas Sarkozy tonight, and one with German chancellor Angela Merkel tomorrow on coordinating responses to the economic crisis.

It may be difficult to watch a British prime minister being so blatantly overruled by a German chancellor, but we should be grateful for it.

It is hard to imagine two leaders more different, in style or substance, than Trump and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.

The omission comes hot on the heels of reports which suggest the German chancellor also succeeded in making Cameron drop a cap on EU citizens coming to the UK.

The PM needs the German chancellor to grant him key concessions to sell the idea that he has secured reforms to Britain's relationship with the EU.

But over in Berlin, the deputy German chancellor does not appear to be quite so keen on this course of action.

4 - Angela Merkel The German chancellor had a bad year and emerged as powerful as she could ever have dreamed.

German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande are due to meet in Paris this evening.

Today's meeting between David Cameron and German chancellor Angela Merkel offers an excellent opportunity to «reset» recently strained Anglo - German relations, as well as a chance for Cameron to set out clearly how and why both countries can support one another as their roles in Europe change to reflect the new reality of closer eurozone integration.

That view has become increasingly prevalent across Europe, with German chancellor Angela Merkel saying multiculturalism had «utterly failed» her country in a speech last year.

When Angela Merkel meets David Cameron in London today, one topic could cause embarrassment to both leaders: Cameron's association with the German anti-Islamist movement, Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West), which was condemned at the New Year by the German chancellor.

Danny Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, said Labour was not happy with the status quo but believed from conversations with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, that reform was possible without the threat of a referendum hanging over talks.

While other EU leaders, including German chancellor, Angela Merkel, are keen to help Cameron devise a new deal that he can sell back home, Berlin insists she will not want to tamper with EU founding principles.

The European Union is in a «critical situation», the German chancellor has said, as leaders meet in Slovakia to discuss ways to regain trust after the UK's vote to leave the bloc.

Based on real life events during the final months in office of the West German chancellor Willy Brandt, this political tale unfolds as suspicions arise that a Stasi spy has infiltrated his inner circle.

German chancellor Angela Merkel is trying to balance between commands of globalists (sanctions against Russia at any costs) and needs of German economy.

Strictly business Looking uncharacteristically ebullient, German chancellor Angela Merkel was snapped in 2010 outside the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.

«All of us emphasise that consolidation of finances - austerity on the one hand and growth on the other - are not opposites,» German chancellor Angela Merkel said.

But following heavy opposition from German chancellor Angela Merkel such criticism could be difficult to avoid.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has adopted a particularly gloomy tone.

German chancellor Angela Merkel may be forced to rely on opposition support in a crunch vote in the German parliament later.

«The importance of the deal can not be stressed too highly,» German chancellor Angela Merkel was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.

German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy quelled fears that Greece could be forced out of the eurozone, referring to the beleaguered country as «integral».

German chancellor Angela Merkel is among those pressing for the constitution to be revived, and a dozen countries have already ratified it.

Brandt, the first left - wing German chancellor in decades, is brought down by the scandal of his nobody assistant.

It is no secret that German chancellor Merkel is praying for a Sarkozy victory, and even if she makes an effort to get on with Hollande, the judgment of the markets on any new French fiscal policy may leave Paris and Berlin facing a massive banking collapse within weeks (and I am surprised that this is not already looming).

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, will insist on «privileged partnership» for Turkey instead of full EU membership when she visits the country next week, according to remarks published yesterday.

Monday saw German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy outline their plans for a «treaty change» for eurozone members.

For example, German chancellor Angela Merkel repeated several times that she would greatly prefer a privileged partnership for Turkey, even at times when many laws in Turkey were changed to be in line with EU laws (for example, abolishment of death penalty).