Merkel Starting to See Former Troublemaker May Be Chancellor Bloomberg 1/15/2021 Arne Delfs
(Bloomberg) Each Monday morning at the state chancellery in Munich, officials run through the week’s events and cherry-pick the best PR opportunities for Bavarian Premier Markus Soeder.
Whether it’s a technology conference, a highway opening or the ceremonial tapping of a beer keg, Soeder’s people routinely sideline members of his cabinet to burnish their boss’s image, according to people familiar with the process. Such uncompromising ambition has made the 54-year-old former TV journalist the front-runner to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor after September’s German election.
Fingers are being pointed as the center-left junior partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel s coalition government takes aim at what it says has been a chaotic start to vaccinating the population.
BERLIN - The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in
BERLIN (AP) The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with politics as Germany embarks on its vaccination drive and one of the most unpredictable election years in the country's post-World War II.
Germany argues over arming drones
‘JOYSTICK KILLING’: Opponents of plans to weaponize drones want there to be a comprehensive ethical debate on ‘automated killing’ by the nation’s armed forces
AFP, BERLIN
With less than a year to go before a general election, the question over whether the German army should be equipped with killer drones has bitterly divided German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government, testing NATO’s patience.
German armed forces have so far only been allowed to use reconnaissance drones as part of military missions in Mali and Afghanistan, leaving it to other international partners to deploy armed drones.