All posts tagged "Olaf Scholz"

Following US presidential candidate Donald Trump's statements on NATO support, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reaffirmed the alliance's common defence. "NATO'S promise of protection applies unreservedly. All for one. One for all," Scholz said on Monday in Berlin at a meeting with the new, pro-European Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Scholz went on to explain that he wanted to make it clear in light of the current situation: "Any relativization of NATO's guarantee of assistance is irresponsible and dangerous and is solely in Russia's interests. Nobody should play with Europe's security." ......

The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland meeting near Paris on Mondsay said they want to work together to tackle Russian disinformation efforts. The three countries have agreed on a joint warning mechanism against Russian troll attacks, French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné said on Monday in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Paris after a meeting with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and his Polish colleague Radosław Sikorski. The three countries had fallen victim to the same Russian destabilization strategy and wanted to defend themselves together, they said. In particular, th......

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz reiterated support for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict and called for an immediate halt to Israeli settlement on the West Bank during a town hall meeting in his constituency on Saturday. "Our view is that there has to be a two-state solution," Scholz said in Nuthetal near Berlin. "There has to be the prospect of peaceful coexistence between Israel as state and a Palestinian state," he said. This is in Israel's own best interest, he added. Scholz expressed the hope that defeat of Hamas would boost the chance of peaceful coexistence in two states......

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged people in Germany to "protect Jews" in the face of anti-Semitic incidents, saying it was a question civil courage. Scholz, in an interview with the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper for Monday's edition obtained by dpa in advance, said: "Anyone who attacks Jews in Germany is attacking us all." "We will not accept anti-Semitism. We have crystal-clear laws: It is a criminal offence to burn Israeli flags; It is a criminal offence to cheer the death of innocent people; It is a criminal offence to shout anti-Semitic slogans," Scholz continued. The law enforcement autho......

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fell and injured himself while out jogging on Saturday and has cancelled a planned campaign appearance in south-central Hesse state for Sunday, a government spokeswoman told dpa. The spokeswoman said Saturday that the 65-year-old chancellor had fallen while jogging and had bruises on his face, confirming earlier German media reports. His appointments in the coming week are not affected, however. Scholz was expected in Bad Homburg on Sunday to help regional candidates campaign for candidates running for his Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the Hesse state parliamen......

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for an equal partnership with the emerging states of Asia, Africa and Latin America ahead of the G20 summit of major economies in India. "This is also a great ... obligation on our part," the chancellor said in an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio published on Saturday. He emphasized that many Western states have a special responsibility towards countries on these continents because of their colonial history. Germany had colonies in Africa and Asia. This is the moment "that we invest everything for this level playing field," Scholz said. The leaders ......