Sentences with phrase «chancellor met»

The commissioner and chancellor met with local reporters following the forum.

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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.

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

Martin Schulz, the center - left candidate for German chancellor and Merkel's primary rival ahead of the September federal elections, said that the U.S. withdrawal from Paris must be met with a refusal by the EU to re-initiate transatlantic trade talks.

Economy Minister Philipp Roesler of Germany said in the report after a weekly cabinet meeting, in which he stood in for Merkel, «The chancellor and we have discussed it and we are united that a bank license can not be our way.»

Meet Kevin Kühnert, the university student who could take down not only his party leader but also the German chancellor.

The German chancellor's meeting with Trump was cordial and warm, but there was little sign of progress on the Iran nuclear deal or EU exemptions from trade tariffs.

The chancellor told a closed meeting of FDP lawmakers that Europe wouldn't manage to mutualize all public debt in her lifetime, said people who attended the meeting.

I surveyed 30 faculty members who would be inconvenienced, and an emergency meeting of the Faculty Advisory Committee on Athletics was held before we submitted our request to attend a bowl to the chancellor, who in turn sought counsel from the Faculty Committee on Bowl Selection before giving the go - ahead.

She said the chancellor had only just managed to meet his targets of reducing the deficit and borrowing.

In a statement following the meeting, the executive said it would continue to seek extra funds from the UK chancellor, necessary to «address the challenges that lie ahead».

These meetings are not minuted and therefore what passes between the governor and the chancellor remains secret.

12:21 - Apropos of almost nothing, Cameron remarks at the end of one question: «When I have a meeting with the chancellor of the exchequer, it's nothing like going to the dentist and there's no need for anaesthetic.»

At one of his first meetings with de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, to discuss the job of New York City schools chancellor, Carranza serenaded them with a mariachi song: «Maria Elena.»

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

The drama unfolded at what was called an emergency meeting of the Miami school board, with parents and students pleading with Superintendent Alberto Carvalho to remain in the job and not move to New York City to replace Carmen Fariña as schools chancellor.

Government information released yesterday showed chancellor George Osborne had met News International representatives 16 times since the general election.

«I remember the chancellor saying to the president of the United States repeatedly in private meetings, and in public, «We are not going to have a Lehman Brothers».

The shrinking, uncomfortable feeling which the chancellor felt when he attended meetings of European finance ministers last week sums up the real reason for the approach revealed in full today.

The leaders of the 10 (mainly Labour) councils that comprise the Greater Manchester combined authority met on Friday to study plans for new council powers negotiated with the chancellor, George Osborne.

Shadow chancellor Alan Johnson commented on the cancelled meeting: «It's no wonder the meeting on bankers» bonuses has been called off - all the Tory - led government has to offer is hot air.

In January, chancellor Gordon Brown admitted that the meeting of the G8 Gleneagles last summer, which was accompanied by mass protests across the world, had failed to make poverty history in the way he had hoped.

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.

de Blasio was joined during the Medgar Evers meet & greet by Assembly Member Walter Mosley and Dr. Rudy Crew, president of Medgar Evers and a former New York City schools chancellor, who warmly welcomed the Mayor.

At a No 10 meeting the then chancellor told Brown «we can not just borrow more to pay for frontline services».

Mr Cameron met the Chinese leader for 45 minutes on Sunday morning, accompanied by shadow foreign secretary William Hague and shadow chancellor George Osborne.

Mr Cameron, Mr Clegg, Mr Cable and chancellor George Osborne are reported to have held a «quad» meeting this week to discuss the banking situation, where concerns were raised about the lack of reform in the sector.

The Children's Society said in a statement it had hoped to see Mr Osborne produce a roadmap to meeting its commitment to end child poverty by 2020 - but had instead been greeted by the prospect of the chancellor «slashing» benefit payments further.

SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher met with Obama and fellow higher education leaders yesterday before a science fair at the White House.

Raiding the pension pots of the rich to meet the ransom presumably needed to obtain his own release; a price the chancellor seems willing to pay, in spite of the risk of upsetting factions in the party.

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.

Richards, chief political commentator on The Independent, examines the shadow chancellor's u-turn over Osborne's fiscal charter and last night's explosive meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

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.

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

Senior Labour sources said Varoufakis had no formal advisory role for the party, but the Greek politician has already met shadow chancellor John McDonnell.

Speaking to reporters in Glasgow before Mr Blair's speech, the chancellor said: «I want to make it absolutely clear today that when I met with [the] prime minister yesterday I said to him that it is for him to make the decision.

The eight - person panel that will evaluate whether Black is qualified to receive a waived and serve as the next NYC schools chancellor is meeting today, just as the state is coming under fire for failing to vet whether members had ties to Bloomberg.

The four - man meeting of the PM, the chancellor, Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander is long gone.

Whitehall officials have said that all three cabinet ministers have made their doubts over hard Brexit known in Cabinet meetings and offered their support to the chancellor.

The newly - elected chancellor (Betty Rosa) and vice chancellor of the Board of Regents, joined by state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, will address the media directly following the meeting of the full Board this morning in Albany.

The chancellor has written to Sir John Mogg, chair of the Gas and Electricity Authority, and Alistair Buchanan, chief executive of Ofgem, requesting a meeting to review the reasons behind the double - digit price prices.

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.

The chancellor has been hailed as courageous for highlighting the risks of Brexit in Cabinet meetings.

But amid an economic downturn it appears unlikely the chancellor will be able to release the funds campaigners say are necessary to meet the government's target of abolishing child poverty.

The school board was reconvened and met, just once, to reappoint Mr. Bloomberg's schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, and give him full authority over the school system.

After a Saturday morning meeting between charter officials and schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, the head of the New York Charter School Center, James Merriman, posed the only question that should matter about the mayor's approach:

On Monday morning, some of those leaders plus at least one who was not a signatory, Representative Adriano Espaillat, attended a breakfast meeting at Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem with Dr. Boudreau; James B. Milliken, CUNY's chancellor; and William C. Thompson Jr., chairman of CUNY's Board of Trustees.

When the board met on July 1, however, the Bronx appointee voted with the other members to keep Mr. Klein as chancellor and give him full power over the schools, including allowing him to approve contracts.

Michael Gove faces a backlash from senior Tories who have accused him of using cabinet meetings to «audition» to be the next chancellor.

The chair of the Treasury backbench committee, the former shadow chancellor, Chris Leslie, has been one of the strongest critics of Corbyn's economic policies and has been willing to challenge them at meetings of the PLP.