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U.K. lawmakers said Prime Minister David Cameron’s defense budget may lack an adequate reserve against cost overruns, possibly resulting in troop reductions and deeper cuts.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said that German companies must do more to raise the “snail’s pace” at which they are appointing women to senior management posts.
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Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition rose to the highest level since January 2010 in a weekly Forsa poll, as her junior partner showed signs of recovery less than six months before German national elections.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s vacation in Italy threatened to inflame Europe’s north-south tensions after she was snapped in a bathing suit by paparazzi and challenged by a regional leader to heed the economic woes around her.
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German nuclear-power operators will have to pay an estimated 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) for identifying and building an atomic-waste depository, Environment Minister Peter Altmaier said.
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French President Francois Hollande hosted Angela Merkel’s opposition challenger for talks in Paris, sending the German chancellor a public signal that she won’t get his support in federal elections in less than six months.
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German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said he’ll fight attempts across Europe to weaken the euro, pledging that his Free Democratic Party will stand up for central-bank independence before federal elections on Sept. 22.
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Germany will probably hold federal elections on Sept. 22, a senior member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her opposition to joint euro-area bonds. She made her comments in a speech in Berlin today.
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Germany’s opposition Social Democrats chose Peer Steinbrueck, a chess-playing former finance minister, as their candidate to challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2013 elections.
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