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Walker's World // 1 decade ago

Walker's World: Merkel: The dark side

The adulation and euphoria surrounding Angela Merkel's re-election success is getting out of hand. The curse of the third term now lies in wait.

World News // 1 decade ago

Merkel-led coalition faces tough road in Sunday's elections in Germany

Polls indicate German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have difficulty building a winning coalition as parliamentary elections draw closer.

Walker's World // 1 decade ago

Walker's World: Woes beneath Merkel's calm

Beneath the apparently smooth path to re-election of Chancellor Angela Merkel, the tectonic plates of German politics are shifting ominously.

World News // 1 decade ago

Former German Chancellor Schmidt has 38,000 cigarettes stashed

Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has stashed enough menthol cigarettes to last him a pack a day until he turns 100, a fellow politician said.

World News // 1 decade ago

Merkel's party loses on state level

Germany's ruling coalition suffered a close but potentially crucial defeat at the state level, eight months before national elections are to be held.

World News // 1 decade ago

Germans vote in regional election

Voters in Germany's Lower Saxony state went to the polls Sunday to vote for state premier, eight months before nationwide elections, officials said.

Business News // 1 decade ago

German deficit meets with election pledge

German Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck said the government's budget deficit would reach $122 billion in 2010, its largest since the end of World War II.

Business News // 1 decade ago

Germany suggests international bailout

German Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck warned the European Union may have to rescue individual countries overwhelmed by national debt.

Business News // 1 decade ago

Germany calls Switzerland a tax haven

Germany has urged the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to list Switzerland, one of its members, as a tax haven.

Business News // 1 decade ago

Official: Crisis will cost U.S. 'status'

The financial crisis will cost the United States its status as a global financial superpower, German Minister of Finance Peer Steinbruck said Thursday.

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To promise tax cuts now is to deceive voters, purely and simply
German deficit meets with election pledge May 14, 2009

If one eurozone (country) gets into trouble, then collectively we will have to be helpful
Germany suggests international bailout Feb 20, 2009

The euro-region treaties don't foresee any help for insolvent countries but in reality the other states would have to rescue those running into difficulty
Germany suggests international bailout Feb 20, 2009

We have a few countries in the eurozone who are getting into difficulties with their payments
Germany suggests international bailout Feb 20, 2009

Switzerland offers conditions that prompt German taxpayers to evade taxes
Germany calls Switzerland a tax haven Oct 22, 2008

Peer Steinbrück (born January 10, 1947 in Hamburg) is a German SPD politician. He currently serves as Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Angela Merkel.

From 1968 to 1969 he was trained as an officer of the reserve of the Bundeswehr. Afterwards he studied economics in Kiel. In 1969 he joined the SPD. Then he worked in public administration.

In 1993 Steinbrück became Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure in the State of Schleswig-Holstein until he changed to go on his career in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, where he became Secretary of Infrastructure in 1998 and Financial Secretary in 2000.

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