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  Germany's former Chancellor Angela Merkel is celebrating a special birthday away from the public eye. Tributes were paid from those within her own Christian Democratic Union party, as well as political opponents. Merkel, pictured with husband Joachim Sauer, has kept a low profile since leaving office German Chancellor Angela Merkel celebrated her 70th birthday away from the public gaze and surrounded only by those closest to her on Wednesday. Merkel became chancellor in 2005, remaining in office for 16 years, and was the first woman to hold the job. "The former Chancellor Dr. Merkel will spend her birthday in private," a spokeswoman for Merkel told the German press agency DPA. "Even during her active political time, the former chancellor generally did not answer private inquiries," the spokeswoman added. "Her attitude to inquiries of this kind has not changed since she left office." Praise from fellow politicians Several politicians congratulated con...

  The German government has made a U-turn on arms exports. It wants to allow the delivery of Iris-T missiles and Eurofighter fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. The German government is allowing weapons exports to Saudi Arabia It was Germany's conservative-led government under Chancellor Angela Merkel that restricted German weapons exports to Saudi Arabia in October 2018. This was in response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and Saudi Arabia's involvement in the war in Yemen, where an alliance of Arab states is fighting against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels under Saudi leadership. That war has triggered one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Now, just over five years later, the government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz is reassessing its relations with the Saudi government. Following the terror attack by the militant Islamist Hamas on Israel on October 7, Saudi Arabia h...

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius (l) and his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu have been keen to show solidarity   Germany and France decided to jointly develop key weapons systems, but several have been abandoned. And now, the MGCS battle tank prestige project is meeting a lot of resistance. The development of the Franco-German battle tank MGCS has taken a step forward this week. Army inspectors from both countries signed a document on the requirements for the joint main battle tank of the future. "This is a milestone that will enable the work to come," said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius at a joint press conference with his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu. To overcome the crisis in Franco-German armaments cooperation, Lecornu invited Pistorius to Evreux in Normandy, from where the binational airlift squadron operates. It was seen as a milestone for the close military cooperation agreed upon by both countries in the Elysee Treaty in...

If we wanted to shoot the federal government to the moon - it would already be there twice! Chancellor Olaf Scholz (65th, SPD) has already driven his traffic light ministers 850,000 kilometers in their personal service limos since taking office in December 2021. That's 2.2 times the distance from the earth to the moon. The government had to announce this at the request of the AfD. But she refused to publish the individual list for the respective ministers. And who is the biggest mile eater in the traffic light cabinet? It is the chancellor himself who, like the vice chancellor under Angela Merkel, is chauffeured in an armored “Mercedes S-Class”. The last to stroll is: Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (42, Greens) with her Audi A8 hybrid (long version). No wonder: the Foreign Minister flies around the world (when she arrives) more than she gurkt through Germany. The worker bee in the cabinet deserves a diligent bee when eating kilometers: Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (...