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Nov 29, 2024 | startribune.com | GEIR MOULSONThe |Geir Moulson

Senior figure with Scholz's ex-allies quits over 'D-Day' paper on German government collapse A senior figure in the party whose departure from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition three weeks ago put Germany on the road to an early election resigned Friday in a furor over an internal document discussing how the party could leave the government, a presentation whose title referred to ''D-Day.'' The Associated Press November 29, 2024 at 11:22AM BERLIN — A senior figure in the party whose...

Nov 25, 2024 | startribune.com | GEIR MOULSONThe |Geir Moulson

Germany's Merkel recalls Putin's 'power games' and contrasting US presidents in her memoirsFormer German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin's ''power games'' over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she could have done more to prevent Brexit, in her memoirs published Tuesday.

Nov 19, 2024 | startribune.com | GEIR MOULSONThe |Geir Moulson

BERLIN — While Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets world leaders in Brazil, a discussion is swirling in his party at home about whether he should seek a second term as German leader in an early election expected in February. Unlike their rivals, Scholz's center-left Social Democrats haven't yet formally nominated their candidate for chancellor in the vote expected Feb. 23.

Oct 31, 2024 | startribune.com | GEIR MOULSONThe |Geir Moulson

Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in the country on Thursday in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces.

Oct 30, 2024 | startribune.com | GEIR MOULSONThe |Geir Moulson

''Each party is going its own way — you get the impression they're already in election campaign mode,'' Clemens Fuest, the head of the Ifo economic think-tank, told ZDF television. ''If that's the case, if the chancellor can't manage to get the government to pull together, then they should actually end the coalition."Last week, Habeck proposed a state investment fund to help companies of every size. It was promptly rejected by both Lindner and Scholz.