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Merkel to May on Brexit negotiations: ‘nein danke’
Theresa May seems to have tried to solve one big outstanding issue ahead of proper full negotiations: the future rights of EU citizens who reside in the UK and UK citizens who are living in the EU.
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Promising more pragmatism in their relationship, and a roadmap to reform the EU, the new French President Emmanuel Macron has been holding talks with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, just a day after he was sworn into office.
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has backed calls for moves to ban the full face veil in Germany. Speaking to her CDU party conference, she said the burka “should be outlawed wherever it is legally possible”.
Theresa May seems to have tried to solve one big outstanding issue ahead of proper full negotiations: the future rights of EU citizens who reside in the UK and UK citizens who are living in the EU.
Berlin had calculated that the Greek people would come to their senses and vote yes. The opposite happened – and Chancellor Merkel must now untangle a Gordian knot of a problem.
It’s the meeting that had to happen. A radical left-wing Greek prime minister and a centre-right German chancellor whose ministers have been urging her to throw Greece out of the eurozone.
Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande launch a new diplomatic initiative in Ukraine, before holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday.
This will not be a decisive moment in the David Cameron renegotiation strategy. And his critics would say the prime minister has a pretty good track record at misreading the German chancellor.
Although she hails from the centre right, Angela Merkel’s political instincts are closer to Ed Miliband’s than to David Cameron’s.
Angela Merkel is reported to have said she would rather Britain left the EU than see measures introduced which would undermine the principle of the free movement of labour.
It would be an unwise person who put money on Jean-Claude Juncker to be next for top job at the European Commission, after David Cameron and Angela Merkel’s talks in Sweden.
Angela Merkel may want France to propose Christine Lagarde as the new European Commission boss. But neither she nor Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker are safe bets for the job.
Germany and France have warned Russia that it will face “appropriate consequences” if the 25 May election in Ukraine does not go ahead as planned.
No.10 have made a mistake in its slightly gushing briefing about the rapport between Angela Merkel and David Cameron. They’re dealing with a cool-headed rationalist.
Speaking to both Houses of Parliament, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that she cannot meet all the UK’s varied expectations of her when it comes to Europe.
Reports suggest the NSA may have been bugging German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone for more than ten years, as her government pushes for “complete information” from the US.