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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble was in top form this weekend as he sent advice to President Barack Obama on handling U.S. finances, before throwing more barbed commands to Greece.
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Instead of embracing a policy of fiscal responsibility, it appears world leaders are going to simply "grow" their respective economies out of the world wide recession.
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" I do not want to make anything look prettier than it is: Greece still has a tough path ahead, but it has gone a long way," said Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, to the Chech daily newspaper Lidove Noviny at the beginning of this week.
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Athens -
The Greek government has finally stood up and demonstrated some backbone and national pride, by rejecting a German proposal which would have seen Greece reduced to a puppet state.
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Dinner for One is a short video which has been a favourite New Year's Eve television repeat in Germany since 1963. It was updated in 2011 to feature Sarkozy as the butler and Merkel as Miss Sophie with hilarious results.
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European politicians - from Nicholas Sarkozy to Angela Merkel - are correct in saying that this is Europe’s darkest hour since World War II. What has emerged from decades of negotiations between European leaders is now under threat.
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Athens -
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is expected to tender his resignation on Thursday following the decision of European leaders to cancel the November bail out in wake of calls for a referendum.
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Dannenberg -
This week as American company Entergy faces closure of its nuclear power plant, with no funds to decommission it, European demonstrators are vehemently protesting the dumping of nuclear waste in Germany.
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Berlin -
Germany's president Horst Köhler resigned after opponents criticized his remarks about the economic importance of military missions for the German economy.
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Berlin -
Chancellor Angela Merkel attended this morning the open-air exhibition on the peaceful revolution in East Germany at the Berlin Alexanderplatz. She congratulated the Robert Havemann Society, which organized the exhibition.
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