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Olaf Scholz fell – cancels meetings
full screen German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Archive image. Photo: Kay Nietfeld/AP/TT German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has fallen on the jogging track and injured his face so badly that he has…
Olaf Scholz fell – cancels meetings
The government writes in an email that the 65-year-old German leader has had a “minor sports accident” and is therefore canceling his planned meetings in the state of Hesse on…
a bill rejected, the coalition of Olaf Scholz weakened on the energy aspect
This is a blow for the coalition of Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Germany. The Constitutional Court of Karlsruhe has just challenged the government’s flagship project on the energy…
Germany: far-right AfD party at the same level as Olaf Scholz’s SPD in the polls
The German far-right has just broken a historic record in the polls. The AfD had already dethroned the Greens as the third political force. The party is now on par…
Olaf Scholz’s SPD suffers a bitter setback in an election in Berlin
The German Chancellor’s Social Democratic Party was defeated this Sunday in a highly symbolic local election in Berlin, its stronghold for more than twenty years. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU)…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz under pressure
Germany does not will not oppose to Poland’s desire to deliver Leopard tanks to Ukraine, which is insistently demanding them, if Warsaw asks for permission, said Sunday January 22 the…
“He has above all confidence in himself”: a year later, Olaf Scholz still as enigmatic
Olaf Scholz does not quote France in his great speeches on Europe. To defend the interests of German industrialists, he made a solo visit to the Chinese president. While Europe…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on business prospecting in Vietnam
The gaze of German companies turns to Vietnam. Before heading to the G20 summit in Indonesia, Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a stop in Hanoi on Sunday. At the center of…
Olaf Scholz in China: for Xi Jinping, a “huge political victory”
“If Russia is a storm, China is climate change.” By this environmental metaphor, one of the heads of German intelligence, Thomas Haldenwang, made parliamentarians understand, in mid-October, the risks posed…
The German chancellor is wary of Russia and bows to China – Olaf Scholz’s way of acting is already bad for Germany’s reputation
Russia’s threat scared Chancellor Olaf Scholz, but the German leader does not seem to take China’s threat seriously, writes European correspondent Suvi Turtiainen. BERLIN Half a year ago, the Chancellor…