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With Merkel gone, Germany gets tough on Brexit
LONDON and BERLIN — Is Britain missing Angela Merkel yet? Boris Johnson arrives in Bavaria on Sunday for the annual G7 summit of world leaders, hosted this year by the new German Chancellor Olaf...
View ArticleDespite specter of Putin, EU chief says G20 should go ahead
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the potential presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin at November’s G20 summit in Indonesia shouldn’t be a reason for Western leaders to...
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G7 leaders vow to support Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes’
ELMAU, Germany — Leaders of the G7 advanced economies promised Monday to extend their financial, military and humanitarian support to Ukraine “for as long as it takes,” stressing that the country must...
View ArticleG7 agrees to explore price cap on Russian oil
ELMAU, Germany — Leaders of the G7 advanced economies on Tuesday reached a broad agreement to seek ways to impose a price cap on Russian oil, overcoming interventions from France that had sought a...
View ArticleScholz says G7 leaders would attend G20 even if Putin comes
ELMAU, Germany — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday that “as things stand today” all G7 leaders would attend the G20 summit in Indonesia this November even if Russian President Vladimir Putin...
View ArticleEU engine ban splits Germany’s coalition
BERLIN — EU plans to end the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2035 are tearing apart Germany’s ruling three-party coalition. The stakes are enormous as the European Commission’s proposal to...
View ArticleG7 buys into Scholz’s Climate Club idea
ELMAU, Germany — The G7 is aiming to form a club of countries committed to stronger action on climate change by the end of the year. As a three-day summit for leaders concluded Tuesday in Bavaria, the...
View ArticleNATO pledges 300K troops, then leaves everyone guessing
MADRID — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg caught the public’s attention Monday when he declared the military alliance would soon place 300,000 troops on high readiness in response to Russia’s warmongering....
View ArticleItaly mulls sending howitzers to Ukraine, says Dutch PM
MADRID — Italy “will be supplying” Ukraine with heavy weapons “similar” to the howitzers that Germany and the Netherlands are sending to the country, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Wednesday as...
View ArticleGermany’s Scholz urges free transit for Russian goods to Kaliningrad
MADRID — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday sought to cool tensions in the Baltic region by urging Lithuania and the EU to lift restrictions on freight transport from Russia to its Kaliningrad...
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From Madrid summit, NATO steps into more dangerous era
MADRID — It’s riskier than the Cold War. It’s less predictable, with fewer ground rules, a real danger of nuclear escalation, attritional bloodletting deeply scarring Ukraine, and no clear path back...
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Germany mulls cost-sharing system amid fears of Russian gas cutoff
BERLIN — The German government is considering bringing an emergency law for a vote in parliament next week that would allow it to equally distribute rising gas costs between customers and companies...
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Germany readies gas emergency law amid fears of Russian cutoff
BERLIN — The German government proposed an emergency law on Tuesday that would allow it to bail out ailing energy companies amid concerns that Russia might turn off the gas tap next week. A reform of...
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‘Wir schaffen das’: Scholz channels Merkel to promote Russian gas exit plans,...
BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz used his predecessor Angela Merkel’s famous saying Wir schaffen das (“We can do it”) on Tuesday as he promoted his government’s efforts to exit a long-standing...
View ArticleUkraine can’t have NATO-style security guarantees from the West, Germany says
BERLIN — Western countries are willing to safeguard Ukraine’s future existence with security guarantees but they can’t amount to a similar level of protection as the NATO military alliance provides,...
View ArticleZelenskyy dismisses controversial ambassador to Germany
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday recalled his country’s ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, who caused controversy after defending a 20th century Nazi collaborator. A decree...
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How the Greens duped Christian Lindner into killing ‘das Auto’
How the Greensduped Christian Lindnerinto killing ‘das Auto’ After grandstanding in Berlin, the German finance minister got beaten in Brussels. Janine Schmitz/Photothek via Getty Images BERLIN —...
View ArticleGermany’s Scholz urges EU to deepen unity in the face of Russian threat
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday urged EU countries to show more unity and end “egoistic blockades” in areas such as foreign policy in order to turn the bloc into a “geopolitical actor” that...
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Germany leaves door open for extending nuclear power use amid energy crisis
The German government on Monday indicated a potential shift on shutting off the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants by year’s end, saying Berlin would analyze whether leaving those...
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Germany’s ‘friendly hawk’ has overseen record debt — and more may be needed
BERLIN — Christian Lindner always knew being Germany’s finance minister would not earn him “much applause.” He didn’t even want such adulation, he claimed, aware he wasn’t “applying for a place in the...
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