Chancellor Olaf Scholz is coming under growing pressure to drop his resistance to sending German-made cruise missiles to Ukraine after the US allowed Kyiv limited use of its weapons for strikes inside Russia. US President Joe Biden has authorised Ukraine […]
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Friedrich Merz suddenly re-entered politics after a near 10-year absence, some described it as the Second Coming. Others said
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A Social Democrat politician has become the first sitting SPD MP to call for the popular defence minister Boris Pistorius
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in nearly two years,
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party, the Social Democrats, and the opposition Christian Democrats have agreed on February 23 as the date
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Olaf Scholz has just pulled the plug on his coalition and polls suggest his party will lose the upcoming snap election. Yet among fellow Social Democrats, the German chancellor has rarely been so popular. The government crisis that culminated last
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he might be prepared to bring forward a confidence vote in his government, raising
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Germany’s deputy chancellor has made a major concession in talks on next year’s budget, amid fears that a simmering row over the spending plan could bring down the country’s fragile coalition government. Robert Habeck said €7bn in government subsidies previously
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a much-vaunted “industrial summit” on Tuesday, sitting down with business leaders and union bosses to figure out how to pull Germany out its current malaise. Pointedly left off the guest list: his own finance and economy
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ambitions to turn Germany into a semiconductor powerhouse have suffered a fresh blow after US tech company
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