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Low-profile Briton is new EU foreign policy chief...working against discrimination. In a surprise move last year, she replaced former British spin doctor Peter Mandelson as EU trade commissioner when he quit Brussels to become British business minister. She has barely caused a ripple... In this article: European Union, Angela Merkel, House of Lords, Glenis Willmott, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, World Trade Organization, Britain, and Peter Mandelson |
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Seattle Times | November 17, 2009
SPIN METER: Did Obama grovel?
...17, 2009 at 7:56 AM by RationalThought. Jump to comment At least he didn't inappropriately touch Akihito, like when Bush tried to give Angela Merkel a shoulder massage. Better a deeply respectful... Posted on November 17, 2009 at 8:27...
In this article: Barack Obama, Akihito, Richard Nixon, State Department, Hirohito, Japan, United States, George W. Bush, and Massage
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Yahoo! News | November 02, 2009
Merkel to address US Congress ahead of Wall anniversary (AFP)
...warning that a refusal risked greatly diminishing Berlin's influence in Washington. Merkel, who leaned hard on Obama's predecessor George W. Bush to make concessions on climate change, also aims to make headway ahead of the UN conference...
In this article: Barack Obama, United States, Berlin, Washington, European Union, Guido Westerwelle, Climate change, and Agence France Presse
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | November 03, 2009
Climate talks face difficult road ahead of meeting
...to say it has no intention of ratifying it. Merkel assured Congress that China and India will agree to accept limits on their own carbon emissions as part of a Copenhagen pact, if the U.S. does. After meeting the German leader in the White...
In this article: Copenhagen, Ban Ki-moon, Carbon, Jose Manuel Barroso, United States, Global warming, U.N., and Climate change
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - International | November 02, 2009
Think Tank's Trans-Atlantic Advice: Europe Must Stop 'Fetishizing' American Relationship
...study says. Trans-Atlantic Economic Council: When the council -- established by former US President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to facilitate better economic cooperation -- met recently, the Europeans turned up with...
In this article: European Union, Europe, United States, Washington, Barack Obama, and Best interests
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Merkel to make historic speech in US
...for financial market regulation and climate change, her spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said. Merkel's invitation, extended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has largely silenced early media reports of chilly relations between Obama and the German...
In this article: Barack Obama, United States, Berlin, Communism, Climate change, Nancy Pelosi, Afghanistan, Konrad Adenauer, and George W Bush
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boston.com - Latest world news | November 03, 2009
Germany's Merkel: advocate of strong US ties
...Gerhard Schroeder's strident criticism of the Iraq invasion. Merkel worked hard on friendly ties with Bush, earning an invitation to his Texas ranch in 2007. But she also showed that she is no pushover, winning respect by publicly...
In this article: Germany, United States, Barack Obama, European Union, George W. Bush, Europe, Berlin, and Washington
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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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