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Fewer cases, fewer deaths and earlier lockdowns were in evidence across nations with female figureheads.
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Germany, New Zealand and Taiwan share a common trait beyond having women in the top job.
Friendlier times: Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in Beijing in 2017.
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Why a new Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China of MPs from 11 countries is a step in the right direction.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and German chancellor Angela Merkel have shown good leadership in the fight against COVID-19.
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It is no accident that those leaders who have responded worst to this crisis have also been the main sources of countless conspiracy theories and misinformation.
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For Germans, this is not a battle, it’s a ‘long distance run’.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the German Federal Parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin. Germany has managed the coronavirus crisis more successfully than its neighbours.
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Female leaders have shone in the response to the coronavirus pandemic but is there more to it than simply having women in charge?
Israeli families hold pictures of relatives killed in the Soviet Union struggle against the Nazis in WWII, Jerusalem, May 2015.
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There’s a widening split over rival interpretations of the end of the second world war and its aftermath.
European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel at the latest leaders’ summit.
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Another EU leaders’ meeting, another humdrum announcement afterwards.
On March 29 in Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate is almost deserted due to restrictions on public life.
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Germans are struggling like the rest of the world with the coronavirus. And while Germans have a strong safety net and medical system, one thing may fall victim to the virus: relations with the US.
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The EU is loathe to let treaties fail, given the sunk costs of negotiating them, but it may walk away if Johnson doesn’t change his tune.
The participants in the West Balkans conference pose for the group photo at the chancellery in Berlin on April 29, 2019.
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What can be the road ahead for Kosovo and Serbia under the EU patronage?
In Muenster, Germany, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and European People’s Party (EPP) launch the European election campaign on April 27, 2019. In the center, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, leader of the CDU. Second from left, Markus Soeder, leader of the CSU. Between them, Manfred Weber, top EPP candidate for the European elections.
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Ahead of the 2019 EU elections, experts from the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway look at how the EU is perceived, key issues and perspectives for the election.
Signing the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
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In the past decade the EU has been struck by a series of crises that have proven that it is far more vulnerable than previously imagined.
The race is on to find a new head of the World Bank following Jim Yong Kim’s resignation.
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The power dynamics in the World Bank have changed dramatically.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during the Deutscher Arbeitgebertag congress, organised by the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA) and gathering German employers in Berlin on November 22, 2018.
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The labour market inequalities and economic insecurity are stoking discontent from the Rhine to the Seine.
As German Chancellor for 13 years, Merkel has been a dominant figure in European politics.
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After 18 years as leader of her party, and 13 as German Chancellor, Angela Merkel has announced that this will be her last term. How has she changed Germany and the world?
In this February 2016 photo, people wave German flags in Erfurt, central Germany, during a demonstration initiated by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
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The political power of Germany’s Russian community is significant, and it’s helped fuel the rise of the right-wing, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party known as the AfD.
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She won’t stand again in 2021 – and it’s unlikely she’ll last until then either.
She’s down, but is she out?
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German politics is experiencing a major shift. Merkel knows her time is up.
A Christmas party at a border transit camp for refugees in Friedland, 2016.
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Despite heated debates about immigration policy, German citizens’ views of migrants and a ‘refugee crisis’ changed little in the year after Angela Merkel’s 2015 decision to open borders.