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ECB says president Christine Lagarde targeted in hacking attempt, but no information compromised
FILE PHOTO: President of European Central Bank Christine Lagarde addresses a news conference following the meeting of the Governing Council's monetary in Frankfurt, Germany March 10, 2022. Daniel Roland/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Ending the Angela Merkel era, Olaf Scholz takes office as German chancellor
New elected German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and former Chancellor Angela Merkel laughs together during a handover ceremony in the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Germany’s Angela Merkel bows out after 16 years
FILE - German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the plenary hall after a debate about the situation in Germany ahead of national elections in Berlin, Sept. 7, 2021. Merkel has been credited with raising Germany’s profile and influence, helping hold a fractious European Union together, managing a string of crises and being a role model for women in a near-record tenure. Her designated successor, Olaf Scholz, is expected to take office Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
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Angela Merkel leadership era at an end as Olaf Scholz announces coalition deal among German parties
Social Democratic Party (SPD) top candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz, Greens party co-leaders Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, and Free Democratic Party (FDP) leader Christian Lindner walk after a final round of coalition talks to form a new government, in Berlin, Germany, November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
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As COVID-19 rages in Germany, pressure mounts for compulsory vaccination
People queue up outside a vaccination centre in a shopping mall, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in Berlin, Germany, November 20, 2021. REUTERS/Christian Mang
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In close German election, Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats narrowly defeat Angela Merkel’s conservatives
(L-R) Secretary General of Germany's Social Democrats SPD party Lars Klingbeil applauds as German Finance Minister, Vice-Chancellor and the Social Democratic SPD Party's candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's state premier Manuela Schwesig and SPD hold bouquets of flowers as they arrrive for a statement prior to an SPD leadership meeting at the party's headquarters in Berlin on September 27, 2021, one day after general elections. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Germany’s Social Democrats, Angela Merkel’s CDU stake rival claims after close election
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 file photo, People walk and drive past election posters of the three candidates for German chancellor , from right, Armin Laschet, Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Annalena Baerbock, German Green party (Die Gruenen) and Olaf Scholz, Social Democratic Party (SPD), at a street in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Germany’s closely fought election on Sunday will set the direction of the European Union’s most populous country after 16 years under Angela Merkel, whose party is scrambling to avoid defeat by its center-left rivals after a rollercoaster campaign. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
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Germans vote in tight race to decide Angela Merkel’s successor
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and North Rhine-Westphalia State Premier, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader and candidate for chancellor, Armin Laschet, attend a rally ahead of the September 26 general election, in Aachen, Germany, September 25, 2021. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
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It’s a Merkelized world – and after Germany’s election, a new chancellor must live in it
Doug Saunders
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‘Auf Wiedersehen Merkel, hallo...?’ and other world market themes for the week ahead
In this file photo taken on May 18, 2008, German Chancellor Angela Merkel exits the plane upon her arrival at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City.
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Global protest seeks to turn up heat on leaders over climate
Climate activists Lea Bonasera and Jacob Heinze pose for a photo in their camp during their 22nd day of hunger strike in Berlin, Germany, September 20, 2021. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi
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Merkel’s CDU maintains position as strongest party after local elections in northern German state
North Rhine-Westphalia's State Premier and the CDU candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speak prior to a party leadership meeting, in Berlin, on Sept. 13.
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Germany’s conservatives face tough battle after 16 years in power, Merkel says
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pictured during a joint press conference during the EPP Groups Bureau meeting (European People's Party) in Berlin, on September 9, 2021. - The Group's Bureau of the European People's Party (EPP Group) holds a meeting in Berlin, Germany, from September 8 to September 10, 2021. (Photo by STEFANIE LOOS / AFP) (Photo by STEFANIE LOOS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Pope Francis chides the West over Afghanistan military intervention
Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Merkel, Putin clash over jailed Kremlin critic Navalny
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a news conference following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia August 20, 2021. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERS
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Germany may need to rescue 10,000 people from Afghanistan: Merkel
Evacuees from Kabul leave the plane at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, Britain, August 16, 2021. UK MOD ? Crown copyright 2021/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
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Germany faces calls for mobile phone disaster alerts after floods
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and North-Rhine Westphalian State Premier Armin Laschet visit the area affected by floods caused by heavy rainfalls, in Iversheim, a suburb of Bad Muenstereifel, North-Rhine Westphalian state, Germany July 20, 2021. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/Pool
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Floods are ‘terrifying,’ says Germany’s Merkel as death toll expected to rise
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2nd L) and Rhineland-Palatinate State Premier Malu Dreyer (R) talk as they stand on a bridge during their visit in the flood-ravaged areas in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate state, Germany July 18, 2021. Christof Stache/Pool via REUTERS
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Biden and Merkel seek to rebuild ties but fail to settle dispute over Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on July 14, 2021 shows US President Joe Biden in Washington, DC on July 2, 2021 and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on May 6, 2020. - US President Joe Biden will participate in a bilateral meeting with Dr. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 15 in Washington DC, this visit will affirm the deep and enduring bilateral ties between the United States and Germany. (Photos by MANDEL NGAN and Michael Sohn / various sources / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN,MICHAEL SOHN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Angela Merkel sees strategic case for Balkan states joining EU
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a press conference after hosting the West Balkans summit at the Chancellery in Berlin on July 5, 2021. (Photo by Michael Sohn / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL SOHN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Angela Merkel, Boris Johnson to discuss COVID-19 travel limits
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street, with colours displayed around the front door to mark Pride Month, to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Merkel, Macron urge vigilance over ‘aggressive’ COVID-19 delta variant
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and French President Emmanuel Macron give a joint statement to journalists, at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday June 18, 2021. (Axel Schmidt/Pool via AP)
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G7 leaders to pledge increase in climate-finance contributions
Shopkeepers look out as Red Brigade activists attend an Extinction Rebellion demonstration in Falmouth, during the G7 summit in Cornwall, Britain, June 12, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville
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G7 leaders commit to plan to tackle next global health crisis
Extinction Rebellion environmental activists and supporters protest in the streets of Falmouth, Cornwall during the G7 summit on June 12, 2021. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)
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Merkel’s party fends off German far-right challenge in state vote ahead of national election
Supporters of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, CDU, react after firs exit poll for the Saxony-Anhalt state elections announced in Magdeburg, Germany, Sunday, June 6, 2021. The election for the new state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt was the last state election before the federal election in September 2021. (Bernd Von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)
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V-shaped virus rebound: World market themes for the week ahead
A trader at the trading floor of KBC bank gives a phone call in Brussels, Belgium August 25, 2015.
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Bavarian leader joins race to run as German chancellor candidate
BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 11: State Premier of Bavaria Markus Soeder wears a face mask during a joint press conference on the occasion of a closed door faction meeting of CDU and CSU with party heads Armin Laschet of the CDU and Markus Soeder of the CSU on April 11, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Analysts see the meeting as an attempt to possibly resolve the question of which of the two men will be the chancellor candidate for the CDU/CSU, the Christian Democratic sister parties that are commonly referred to simply as "the Union" in German politics. Laschet, who is also premier of North Rhine-Wetsphalia, emerged as the favourite within the CDU in a runoff earlier this year, though support for Soeder, who is premier of Bavaria, has grown louder recently as Laschet has faltered in perceived missteps related to coronavirus policy. Merkel is stepping down as chancellor and voters will determine her replacement in federal elections scheduled for September. (Photo by Clemens Bilan - Pool/Getty Images)
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The collapse of Merkel’s pandemic-control machine is a warning to us all
Doug Saunders
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Lockdown extension looms in Germany as COVID-19 cases rise
German Health Minister Jens Spahn speaks during a news conference at the Health Ministry, in Berlin, on March 18, 2021.
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Angela Merkel’s party shaken by defeats in two German state elections
Armin Laschet, chairman of the German Christian Democratic Union, takes part in a news conference at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, on March 15, 2021.
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Angela Merkel’s party suffers defeats in two German state elections
A voter casts his ballot for the state elections in the southern German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in a polling station in Ludwigsburg, southern Germany, on March 14, 2021. In German federal state Baden-Wuerttemberg a new state parliament is elected on March 14, 2021. - Germans are heading to the polls in two key regional elections, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives bracing for a drubbing on anger over a corruption scandal and a series of pandemic setbacks. The votes for new regional parliaments in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg are seen as a bellwether ahead of September 26 general elections -- which will be the first in over 15 years not to feature Merkel. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP via Getty Images)