THE State could be forced to accept a second bailout, with painful conditions, in return for a write-down of some of our EUR 64billion bank debt. A member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party dropped the bombshell yesterday.
Germany's decision to shut all its nuclear reactors by 2022, in reaction to Japan's nuclear disaster, has inevitably caused waves here. Anti-nuclear groups across Britain are demanding the Government follow suit. Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision followed mass nationwide protests against nuclear power, something we have not seen here. But it also comes with support for her Christian Democratic party at a low point, which may make the Liberal Democrats pause for thought. Germany had already suspended its eight oldest reactors following the accident at Fukushima, and they will stay closed. Now the chancellor says the other nine nuclear plants will shut within 11 years, a remarkable U-turn, as just eight months ago she committed to extending the lives of all 17. So Germany becomes the fi...
BELARUS has released from detention one of the five opposition presidential candidates charged with organising mass disorder on the night of last month's presidential election, according to his party. Vitaly Rymashevsky, leader of the Christian Democratic Party, was one of 22 activists charged with disorder in connection with the vote, which gave Alexander Lukashenko a fourth term in office.
THE State could be forced to accept a second bailout, with painful conditions, in return for a write-down of some of our EUR 64billion bank debt. A member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party dropped the bombshell yesterday.
A SCOTSMAN who got married in a kilt, supports Rangers, likes white pudding and drinks Irn-Bru is now being tipped as the future leader of Germany. After rising fast within the nation's Christian Democratic Union party, David McAllister is up for re-election as governor in the state of Lower Saxony later this month - and pundits predict he could go much further.
BARONESS Kinnock has accused the Conservatives of losing their influence in Europe. The South Wales peer, who is Europe Minister, spoke out after reports that the ruling German Christian Democratic Party had recalled its London representative because of David Cameron's decision to withdraw his MEPs from the European People's Party.
ANGELA Merkel has said Islam has become a part of Germany and is urging her fellow citizens to show tolerance for Muslims. The Chancellor told members of her conservative Christian Democratic Party the great majority of Muslims in Germany had distanced themselves from the recent violence during protests against an anti-Islam video that ridiculed the Prophet Mohammed.
DUTCH troops will begin leaving southern Afghanistan in August, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said yesterday. Speaking a day after his coalition government collapsed over the issue, Mr Balkenende said the Netherlands will end its role in Uruzgan province, where 21 Dutch soldiers have been killed since the mission was first deployed in 2006. "Our task as the lead nation ends in August this year," he said on Dutch television. A marathon cabinet meeting that broke up before dawn on Saturday ended with the walkout of Labour, the second largest party in the government. Members of the party accused the dominant Christian Democratic Alliance of reneging on a 2007 agreement to bring the troops home this year.
LAST Sunday's regional elections went badly for Angela Merkel's government. Her Liberal allies failed to win a single seat in Rheinland- Pfalz while her own Christian Democratic Union party has lost power for the first time in more than 50 years, in Baden-Wurttemberg.
, who quit the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in 1994 rather than support an award that included YasserArafat, died on Saturday, aged 85. Kristiansen was leader of Norway's Christian Democratic Party twice, for a total of six years, and a member of parliament from 1973 until 1989. He was also Norwegian oil minister from 1983 until 1986 as part of a centre-right coalition.
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