Frank-Walter Steinmeier

...policy. The deployment of troops was a central issue in Germany during elections held in September. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier proposed withdrawing troops as early as 2011. His rival, Chancellor Angela Merkel opposed...

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...conference, the SPD also elected a new general secretary, Andrea Nahles. The party's former candidate for chancellor, Frank-Walter Steinmeier is now the party's parliamentary leader. German newspapers on Monday assess Gabriel's...

In this article: Sigmar Gabriel, Social Democrats, CDU, Dresden, Free Democratic Party, Tax, Angela Merkel, Social Democrats, and Andrea Nahles

Obvious Solution? Still, the weekend convention promises to be a difficult one for the party. Hinting at debates to come, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the SPD's floor leader and failed chancellor candidate, told SPIEGEL ONLINE this week that...

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...Chancellor Angela Merkel, so far, has not put forward a German for either post, even though the former foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, would be a popular choice among the member states to lead foreign policy. Instead, Mrs. Merkel...

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Der Fraktionsvorsitzende der SPD, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, gestikuliert am Dienstag, 10. November 2009, waehrend seiner Rede im Bundestag in Berlin.

In this article: Angela Merkel, Berlin, Bundestag, Climate change, Kyoto Protocol, Global warming, European Union, and Copenhagen

...are the Spanish foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, the Romanian MEP Adrian Severin and three former foreign ministers, Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany, Elisabeth Guigou of France and Alfred Gusenbauer of Austria. The centre-right...

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...about how the government will be able to finance its tax plans in light of Germany's spiralling EUR1.5trn deficit. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the opposition leader ditched as Ms Merkel's coalition partner, described the new government's...

In this article: Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle, Tax, Germany, Recession, and Afghanistan

...calls out to the assembled SPD members. "I intend to be very committed and to fight." What Steinmeier is saying is that he wants to keep going. But the situation couldn't be more difficult. It doesn't take a psychic to predict that...

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...campaigning experience and has not shown the rhetorical skills and charisma of his mentor Schroeder. Steinmeier is seen as a moderate within the SPD. He has defended Schroeder's controversial "Agenda 2010" economic reforms against left-wing...

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