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Berlin: Germany is set to hold the crucial federal election on Sunday (February 23) to elect its next chancellor. The snap polls were called by chancellor Olaf Scholz when his coalition government fell apart at the end of last year, the results of which will shape the future of Europe’s most influential nation and the…
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Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that it was “wrong and dangerous” of US President Donald Trump to call Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator”. “What is correct is that Volodymyr Zelensky is the elected head of state of Ukraine,” Scholz told the Spiegel news site. Earlier on Wednesday Trump called Zelensky “a dictator…
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Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday sharply criticized Elon Musk’s backing of the right-wing parties in the European Union, calling it “really disgusting” and said it was hindering democracy in the bloc. The U.S. billionaire and ally of U.S. President Donald Trump has multiple times attacked the chancellor and his government, calling on him…
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Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Saturday that the principle of sovereign borders must be protected, days after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out force to seize Greenland. Speaking to a congress of his Social Democrat party ahead of a general election next month, Scholz said: “The principle of the inviolability of borders…
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announces the decision to dissolve the German Bundestag and schedule a new election for February 23 next year, in Berlin, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday (December 27, 2024) ordered parliament dissolved and set new elections for Feb. 23 in the wake of…
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Berlin, Germany: Germany’s centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote on Monday after weeks of turmoil, setting Europe’s biggest economy on the path to early elections on February 23. The Bundestag vote, which Scholz had expected to lose, allows President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to dissolve the legislature and formally order an election. The crucial vote…
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Chancellor Olaf Scholz will call on Germany’s parliament on Monday (December 16, 2024) to declare it has no confidence in him, taking the first formal step towards securing early elections following his government’s collapse. The departure last month of the neoliberal Free Democrats from the three-way…
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a ceremony honouring fallen soldiers near the People’s Memorial of National Memory in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, December 2, 2024 | Photo Credit: AP German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Ukraine for the first time in more than 2.5 years on Monday (December 2, 2024), just…
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Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to engage in peace talks with Ukraine, in the first call between the leaders in almost two years. In the call, Scholz “condemned Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and called on President Putin to end it and withdraw troops”, the chancellor’s spokesman…
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On the day the U.S. elected Donald Trump as its 47th President, Germany’s ruling coalition of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), environmentalist Greens, and neo-liberal Free Democrats (FDP) dissolved after three years. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked the Finance Minister Christian Lindner late in the evening on November 6 over budget-related disagreements that have riddled this…
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