German gas consumers will not be left to bear higher energy costs on their own. Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised relief measures in tandem with state bailout for Uniper. Welfare and housing benefit reforms, including addition of a heating cost component, will take effect next year. BERLIN, 22 JULY – German gas consumers will not be … Read more
All G7 nations are concerned about impending economic crisis as GDP slows and inflation increases, Scholz says. Falling growth rates in some countries, rising inflation, raw materials shortages, disrupted supply changes. German Chancellor: “All members are concerned”. SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany (Reuters) – After a session on the global economy at this year’s annual G7 conference, … Read more
Scholz and Macron push Putin to release 2,500 Azovstal soldiers French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have requested that Putin discharge 2,500 Ukrainian contenders. Who stayed inside the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol and who was taken prisoner by Russia. “The leader of the Republic and the German chancellor requested the arrival … Read more
Germany is ready to introduce gas and energy projects with Senegal Germany is seriously seeking after gas and sustainable power projects with Senegal, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday during his most memorable excursion to Africa, against the background of the conflict in Ukraine and its effect on energy and food costs. Scholz started off … Read more
Exit polls from Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday showed Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) trailing the conservative CDU by a wide margin. Surveys published after polling stations closed at 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) put the conservatives on around 35 percent, with the SPD on around 28 percent — a result … Read more
Four Ukrainian flags are flapping in the cold northern wind, Outside the university hospital (UKSH) in Luebeck, Germany’s Baltic coast. Ukrainian nurses and doctors have been treating patients from their home country at this ultra-modern facility since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Oleksandra Shaniotailo, 31, from Chernivtsi, near Ukraine’s border with Romania, was hired as … Read more
On Monday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz praised French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal for a larger European club of countries outside the EU, which could include Ukraine or the United Kingdom. “I want to say explicitly that this is a very interesting suggestion,” Scholz told journalists, adding that he was “very pleased about the suggestion that … Read more
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz rebuffed criticism on Sunday that Germany was not leading western attempts to equip Ukraine with heavy weaponry to oppose Russia’s invasion, saying he’d rather be careful than making hasty decisions. Scholz is under pressure at home and abroad to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons such as tanks and howitzers, … Read more
Germany said Tuesday it might ship anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine, in a clean transfer in Berlin’s careful policy on army backing for Kyiv that became welcomed by way of the United States. The government has agreed to log out the transport of used Gepard anti-aircraft tanks, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht told a global assembly of … Read more
BERLIN: President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser claimed Kyiv wanted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to come and commit further armament delivery, explaining the snub. On Tuesday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he had offered to visit Ukraine alongside other EU leaders, but Kiev had refused. German diplomats saw the action against Steinmeier, a former foreign minister who … Read more
LONDON, Germany may quit importing Russian oil this year, according to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. This demonstrates how critical it is for Europe’s largest economy to avoid receiving energy from Russia Scholz was responding to a query from a journalist about whether he felt ashamed that EU countries were paying Russia billions of dollars for fossil … Read more
BERLIN: Germany has registered more than 100,000 new Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours, according to data released by the country’s public health agency on Wednesday. Europe’s biggest economy recorded 112,323 coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours and 239 fatalities, the Robert Koch Institute said. The weekly incidence rate reached 584.4 new infections per 100,000 … Read more
