The Germans have a winner, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz with a new republic based on the agreement between the parties of the young leaders of the Greens and the liberals. The SPD won with a mandate: to build a so-called 'traffic light' government. But Armin Laschet, writes the Ansa, replied with an invitation "to humility". "With 25% it is not possible to claim [...]
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Today the extraordinary G7 summit was held remotely, organized by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss international security, migrants and respect for human rights with a particular focus on the situation in Afghanistan in light of the expected withdrawal date of the American military, the 31 August next. While on the one hand the [...]
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Global plan for the prevention of future pandemics, a plan on infrastructures for low-income countries, these are just two of the main cornerstones of the strategy launched by the G7 countries to establish itself in the world trying to counter, as far as possible, the initiative of the New Chinese Silk Road. To support the new policy [...]
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Elisabetta at 95, recently widowed by her Philip, presented herself at the G7 in the presence of the great of the Earth. Obviously she took the stage of the day in a floral dress and white gloves, and with the heads of state and government at her side or just behind her. He traded [...]
read moreThe virus does not loosen its grip, France and Germany are ready for the lockdown in differentiated measures: Only yesterday 230 billion euros were burned from the stock exchanges. Today the Heads of State and Government will meet via video conference to discuss the Von der Lyen anti-CoVid-19 guidelines. Probable delivery of the vaccine to [...]
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On 9 March, French President Emmanuel Macron received Libyan general Khalifa Haftar, commander of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) at the Elysée, for a meeting held secret, which had not even been included in the agenda. The newspaper "Le Monde" reports it. Sources close to the dossier let it be known that the visit of the Libyan general is part of the [...]
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Euronews reports that Chancellor Angela Merkel would like to bring the countries of the Northern Balkans to the European Union. Macron's France is against the proposal. Yesterday Merkel met the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, in Berlin. From Merkel's words, it is legitimate to deduce that the meeting was characterized by great cordiality: "In the name [...]
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THE RESULT OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE The delegations of Fayez al Serraj and that of General Haftar refused to meet during all phases of the Berlin Conference. Tripoli Prime Minister Fayez al Serraj also told the Dpa agency that "If the aggression of General Khalifa Haftar resumes, we will continue to defend ourselves vigorously until [...]
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UNSMIL in a note: “deep concern over current efforts to stop or compromise oil production in Libya. This move would have devastating consequences first and foremost for the Libyan people who depend on the free flow of oil for their well-being. It will also have terrible knock-on effects for the already deteriorated economic and financial situation [...]
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This is a real scoop of La Stampa. The general who controls Cyrenaica, Khalifa Haftar was in Rome on January 8 to meet with US Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates (in charge of Libya and North Africa), and Richard Norland, American ambassador for Libya. The news emerged by crossing the information [...]
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Yesterday a bolt from the blue. French President Emmanuel Macron used very harsh words about NATO: "he is in a state of brain death". The criticisms leveled at NATO by French President Emmanuel Macron are "an unnecessary broadside". This is what Chancellor Angela Merkel declared during the press conference with the NATO secretary general, [...]
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Other than Salvini, Savoini & co. With Russia the facts are done by Angela Merkel with Gazprom. Now with Ursula von der Leyen, the new president of the EU Commission, the game is done. Fausto Carioti on Libero explains the details of the operation. Side by side, Putin's lobbyists, the team led by the Chancellor and the [...]
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Chancellor Angela #Merkel in an interview with "Corriere della Sera" expressed her perception on the recent European vote. “I am happy that the turnout in #Germany has increased compared to the previous European elections, as in many countries. We have become the strongest party and this will have its weight in the division of offices within [...]
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A high-tension NATO summit in Brussels, Trump threatens to leave NATO and pushes to get all alliance members to spend at least 2% of domestic GDP on military spending under the 2015 agreements. The Guardian reports that Bulgarian President Rumen Radev reportedly told the press that Trump will push [...]
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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer rejected the agreement signed by Angela Merkel with some EU countries on "secondary migrants". This was reported by CSU sources, suggesting that the German government is at risk again. During a party meeting in Munich, the Minister of the Interior, who embodies the right wing of the conservatives, [...]
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Social networks, for better or for worse, are an "immediate" means to get the messages, or rather the message, without having to go through the chancelleries and thus avoid unnecessary delays due to bureaucratic channels. After the grievances of the Italian institutions on the draft "prepackaged" document that probably the major European partners wanted to propose at the top [...]
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The draft of the conclusions of the EU Council at the end of June speaks of secondary movements of migrants. It refers to the movements of asylum seekers between the various EU states that "would seriously jeopardize the integrity of the asylum system". The draft of the document cites the summary of the problem in two lines. Member States […]
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The traditional Franco-German summit that will take place in the castle of Meseberg, near the German capital, this year sees a Merkel in difficulty, under siege in Germany over the migrant issue. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer threatens an internal political crisis if not all migrants are brought back to the border. Merkel and Macron have foreseen a [...]
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German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, after the EU Council at the end of June, will begin to push back migrants at the border if a viable agreement is not found. With this postponement, Seehofer appears oriented to avoid an immediate open challenge to the chancellor, after having threatened to proceed unilaterally with the rejections. The 'masterplan' on immigration, developed by [...]
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As the European Council approaches, on 28 and 29 June next, German Chancellor Angela Merkel finds herself in the midst of an internal storm. The ruling coalition is imploding precisely on the issue of migrants. The rift was created between Merkel and her allies in the Bavarian CSU branch, led by the minister [...]
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On June 5 there will be a meeting in Brussels between the Ministers of the Interior of the member countries. Too bad that the Italian Minister of the Interior will be engaged in Italy for the vote of confidence of the government of change. In the meantime, the emergency continues in the Mediterranean, where the landings and unfortunately also the dead have continued today. The Leader of [...]
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Tension remains high over the name of Paola Savona indicated as the future Minister of Economy. “German newspapers and politicians insult: Italian beggars, slackers, tax evaders, freeloaders and ingrates. And should we choose a minister of the economy that suits them? No thanks! #primagliitaliani ". Matteo Salvini writes this on Facebook annoyed by the strong pressures coming from Europe. [...]
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Trump will also meet Merkel who hurried to leave for the White House Angela Merkel to avoid US duties on Europe, which could start as early as May XNUMXst, and save the agreement with Iran that the American president seems determined to tear up. Precisely for Iran, the mission of the German Chancellor really appears as a last [...]
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked all European Member States to actively contribute to coping with the large influx of migrants. We must work together to stem the flow by strengthening external borders and fighting the problems that cause their lands to flee. Speaking to Parliament, before a meeting with [...]
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Federica Mogherini, is the fifth most powerful female politician in the world, according to the Forbes ranking for the year 2017. In the first place there is Angela Merkel. The German Chancellor holds the record "after winning a hard-fought election this year" because her power "is still solid thanks to low unemployment and strong economic growth [...]
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Jill Morris, the first woman to hold the post of British Ambassador to Italy and San Marino, in a speech on Brexit declares: "We do not want only to be a good neighbor, but the best friend of the EU" and still "we remain European, without denying our identity ". The line on Brexit, says the ambassador, is clear and soon there will be [...]
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Theresa May seeks help trying to unblock the Brexit negotiation and, in the same hours as she flies to Brussels to deal personally with the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, she hears both Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron on the phone. The conversation with the German Chancellor took place yesterday afternoon. The one with the [...]
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Emir Qatar around Europe to raise awareness of the country after embargo Turkey supports the mediation initiative launched by Kuwait, and together with Iran it is one of the few countries that sided with Qatar after the boycott initiated by the four Arab states who accuse Doha of supporting terrorism and interfering [...]
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Developing a development and security partnership between the European Union and Africa is necessary to create prospects for the future of the countries of the continent, without this approach it will not be possible to tackle “illegal practices”. This is what the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, underlined during the joint press conference which took place today at the end of the mini summit [...]
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The German government rejects the Dublin Regulation, which requires the examination of asylum applications to the first country of disembarkation, and insists on the redistribution of migrants in all countries of the European Union. "It is not possible that Greece or Italy alone will have to bear all the burdens only because their geographical position is what [...]
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Once again whistles and protests by Afd supporters for Chancellor Angela Merkel, during a rally that has just ended in Vacha, in the heart of Thuringia, one of the Laender where the populists are stronger. "Go away" they shouted at her continuously. The Chancellor, who almost struggled to make people feel [...]
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Of course international politics is strange and twisted. Angela Merkel presses to continue on the path of sanctions against Russia and then it turns out that Siemens, the German industrial giant, has a supply of gas turbines in progress, again for Russia. Turbines which, as it turned out, have already been placed in the Crimea. [...]
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US President Donald Trump has already announced before the summit that he wants to exit the Paris climate agreement, and expresses a position largely incompatible with the opening of his interlocutors to globalized free trade. With its motto "America first" it has initiated a renegotiation of the agreements already signed by the US and has not [...]
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Martin Schulz, criticizes Angela Merkel for the excessive softness she had during her meetings with Donald Trump. The chancellor's challenger in the elections on 24 September said in an interview with the “Welt am Sonntag” that Merkel “dared to put herself in a position of conflict with the American president only occasionally. Until now it is [...]
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