Konrad Adenauer was the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Nigel Lawson was Thatcher s second Chancellor of the Exchequer, or finance minister.

As Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria I take those concerns very seriously.

Chancellor Schröder will be confronted by the need finally to address Germany's real economic problems.

Schröder has been the first post war Chancellor to exploit it for campaign purposes.

He overestimated German Chancellor Angela Merkel s willingness and ability to support the British position.

Unfortunately, the fire brigade is being led by Germany, and its chief is Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Let us recall that news of surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies against the chancellor of Germany emerged last week.

And the undertaker was not ECB President Mario Draghi it was German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The uneasy partnership of Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown is a good example of this tactic.

In 1309 he was appointed chancellor of Charles II, and in 1310 he was transferred to Avignon.

Yet one cannot help agreeing with Chancellor Schmidt when he sees Europe s future shrouded in uncertainty.

In the German media, references to Margaret Thatcher and Otto von Bismarck abound, with Merkel hailed as an Iron Lady, even an Iron Chancellor.

Of course, falling gas prices are occurring in Europe as well, and this will help take the sting out of the controversial VAT increase engineered by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

It is even more absurd today, with Angela Merkel someone who is without illusions about Russia as German Chancellor.

In 1259, he was appointed to the council of the king, who made him keeper of the great seal, chancellor of France, one of the great officers in the household of the king.

Some members of the opposition in Germany would dearly love to do the same to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, though they have not (yet!) found a film star to replace him.

When Chancellor Helmut Kohl and I talked about this in July 1989, we thought that the time had not come to end the division of Germany.

Only a broad coalition could defeat Kohl and it was essential that it should not spell out any detail or any concrete steps.

It remains unclear how long lasting the effects of Draghi s intervention or of the public support offered to him by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François Hollande, and Italian premier Mario Monti will prove to be.

Schmidt was the country s defense minister from 1969 to 1972, finance minister from 1972 to 1974, and federal chancellor from 1974 to 1982.

Fear of attack increased as Germany regained its strength after the First World War, especially after Adolf Hitler gained power and became German Chancellor in 1933.

Gerhard Schroeder, who less than a month ago was Germany s Chancellor, has agreed to become chairman of the company that is building a gas pipeline from Russia, across the Baltic Sea to Germany, and on through Western Europe.

On February 23, a day after addressing America s allies in Brussels, President George W. Bush will meet German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the old city of Mainz on the Rhine.

While this need not matter to her too much as long as she retains the chancellorship, in Sigmar Gabriel, the SPD s leader, she faces for the first time an opponent whom she would underestimate at her peril.

But one wonders how Obama would have reacted in 1933 had the German military toppled Hitler (who, after all, was appointed Chancellor after winning an election).

The difficult personal chemistry he has with German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reinforced by his constant attacks on the European Central Bank and its president, Jean Claude Trichet.

Thus, in addition to an orderly resolution regime for banks, Europe must also implement early orderly restructurings of distressed sovereigns public debt. Waiting until 2013 to implement these restructurings, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposes, will destroy confidence, as it implies a much larger haircut on residual private claims on sovereign borrowers.

Waiting until 2013 to implement these restructurings, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposes, will destroy confidence, as it implies a much larger haircut on residual private claims on sovereign borrowers.

This year, the case for radical constitutional reform of the EU was argued by Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the former French President, and Helmut Schmidt, a former German Chancellor and also by Jacques Delors, a former President of the Commission.

As Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria I will do my utmost do ensure the strict implementation of the Preamble and the Government Program (which can be found on the website of the Austrian Federal Government http www.austria.gv.at.)

But, in the last few years, the Europeans, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, have de facto slammed the door to European Union accession in Turkey s face.

The president called them successful, in his words, he managed to meet with the President of the FRG Frank Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Angela Merkel, with whom he discussed among other things the fight against racism and Islamophobia.

The German Russian agreement to build a gas pipeline bypassing Poland and Lithuania, with former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder leading the effort, has already harmed Polish German relations, to say nothing of European cooperation.

Terperangkap antara Kanselir Jerman yang enggan dan Perancis yang tidak sehat, Schäuble memperkirakan bahwa turbulensi yang diakibatkan oleh keluarnya Yunani dari Eurozone akan membantu meyakinkan Perancis, serta rekan rekan satu kabinetnya, akan pentingnya menerapkan rencana tersebut.

Angela Merkel was sometimes called the German Iron Lady, and that seems to have scared enough people to rob her of an expected victory. Even if she becomes Chancellor, she has no mandate for deep reform.

If the negotiation of a new EU Constitution is to have any chance of success, it may be decided on Saturday, at a meeting between Tony Blair of Britain, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany, and President Jacques Chirac of France.

Soon it emerged that not all its apparent supporters actually supported it when Chancellor Schroeder's proposed reforms caused squeals within his own party, he quickly dropped much of the Third Way program like a hot potato.