Angela Merkel
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Will Germany Support Obama's Iran-Sanctions Coalition?Will Germany Support Obama's Iran-Sanctions Coalition? German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a meeting of G-8 leaders in L'Aquila, Italy Tougher sanctions are a key component of the U.S. strategy for curbing Iran's nuclear program, but... In this article: Barack Obama, Germany, Iran, U.S., U.N. Security Council, European Union, Moscow, Sergei Lavrov, and U.N. |
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | July 08, 2009
Merkel warns on climate-change progress at G8
...December. Mrs Merkel issued her call for caution during a joint press conference with the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, after an hour-long meeting on the eve of G8 talks in L'Aquila, in the earthquake-devastated Abruzzo region. Both spoke...
In this article: G8, Climate change, Global warming, Copenhagen, Kevin Rudd, US, L'Aquila, and China
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | July 06, 2009
Rudd, Merkel to discuss climate change
...in Berlin on Tuesday. Rudd is due to arrive in the German capital on Tuesday afternoon (AEST) when he will be officially welcomed by President Horst Kohler at the Bellevue Palace before holding talks with Merkel. The prime minister's...
In this article: Kevin Rudd, Climate change, Berlin, Carbon, G8, Oxfam, Barak Obama, Copenhagen, and Germany
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | July 08, 2009
G8: Germany to help rebuild Italian village destroyed in earthquake 65 years after Nazi massacre
...12:26AM BST 09 Jul 2009 German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) shares a laugh with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the Group of Eight (G8) summit in L'Aquila, central Italy, Photo: AFP Mrs Merkel was accompanied by...
In this article: G8, Germany, L'Aquila, Silvio Berlusconi, and Italy
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The Hindu - News | July 08, 2009
Merkel visits quake ravaged hamlet near G 8 summit
...by an earthquake in April. Ms. Merkel, at one point wearing a helmet, was accompanied by Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi for her tour on the sidelines of a Group of Eight meeting in nearby L'Aquila. She said after the tour that it...
In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, L'Aquila, Berlin, Germany, World War II, Abruzzo, and Italy
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GlobalPost | July 08, 2009
In L'Aquila, little enthusiasm for G8 talks
...Angela Merkel tours the ruined city of Onna near L'Aquila in central Italy, July 8, 2009. Merkel will attend the G8 summit from July 8-10. (Tony Gentile/Reuters) Fears that once G8 summit concludes, site of earthquake will be left in...
In this article: L'Aquila, G8, Small business, Dog, Italy, Tehran, and New Orleans
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - International | July 03, 2009
Is the G-8 Obsolete?: Merkel Favors G-20 to Tackle World's Problems
...G-8 summit. With a week to go before the next G-8 meeting in the Italian city of L'Aquila, Merkel told the German parliament in Berlin on Thursday that the forum was no longer sufficient to deal with the challenges ahead. "We are seeing...
In this article: Italy, L'Aquila, Pittsburgh, London, Recession, Climate change, Die Tageszeitung, and Der Spiegel
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BBC News | July 08, 2009
G8 leaders 'hopeful on economy'
...solidarity with the victims of April's earthquake. He took Mrs Merkel on a tour of Onna, a nearby village almost flattened by the quake, and Mr Obama was later given a tour of L'Aquila. Germany has pledged to help rebuild the church in...
In this article: G8, Silvio Berlusconi, Climate change, International Monetary Fund, Barack Obama, L'Aquila, Recession, Carbon, and EU
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New Kerala | July 09, 2009
Yes We Camp: Quake victims protest
...of camps into the newly repaired houses by the end of the year. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and wives of the leaders attending G8+G5 meeting have met the quake victims. In L'Aquila itself, many people have slowly returned to their...
In this article: L'Aquila, G8, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy, Abruzzo, Punjab, West Bengal, Rome, and India
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AFP Finance News | July 02, 2009
G8 alone can't solve world's problems
...solve world's problems BERLIN (AFP) - The Group of Eight industrialised powers (G8) is no longer the appropriate forum to thrash out the world's problems, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. Speaking in the German...
In this article: G8, L'Aquila, Climate change, Brazil, China, and Berlin
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Angela Dorothea Merkel (; born Angela Dorothea Kasner, 17 July 1954, in Hamburg, West Germany) is the current Chancellor of Germany. Merkel, elected to the German Parliament from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 10 April 2000, and Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary party group from 2002 to 2005. She leads a Grand coalition with the Christian Social Union (CSU), its Bavarian sister party, and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), formed after the 2005 federal election on 22 November 2005.
In 2007, Merkel was also President of the European Council and chair of the G8. She played a central role in the negotiation of the Treaty of Lisbon and the Berlin Declaration. In domestic policy, health care reform and problems concerning future energy development have thus far been the major issues of her tenure.
Merkel is the first female Chancellor of Germany. From 2006 to 2009, Forbes Magazine has named her the most powerful woman in the world., In 2007 she became the second woman to chair the G8, after Margaret Thatcher.
Chancellor Merkel is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an International network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.
In 2008 Merkel received the Charlemagne Prize "for her work to reform the European Union". The prize was presented by Nicolas Sarkozy.
- Birth Date:
- July 17, 1954
- Birthplace:
- Hamburg, Germany
- Religion:
- Lutheranism
- Spouse:
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- Joachim Sauer
- Ulrich Merkel
- University Attended:
- University of Leipzig
- Occupation:
- Physical chemist
- Political party:
- Christian Democratic Union
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