When Silvio Berlusconi was elected Italy’s prime minister in 1994 Donald Trump was more than two decades into the future,but Berlusconi was the promise of things to come.
Angela Merkel’s legacy has attracted increasingly critical scrutiny since her departure,but her impressive list of firsts has earned her recognition.
The former Germany chancellor conceded that her country’s lacklustre defence spending weakened her ability to negotiate with Vladimir Putin.
In a rare interview,the former German chancellor,who spends her retirement binge-watching Netflix,says she was “powerless” near end of her reign.
When a public relations conference told me this week that environmental,social and (corporate) governance is the next big thing,I took it as a warning that it’s about to be over.
It’s the former German chancellor’s first comments about the war and what may have led to it.
With his down-to-earth and no-nonsense manner,Scholz has positioned himself as Merkel’s natural successor and a safe pair of hands to steer Europe’s largest economy.
Angela Merkel,a conservative,long shunned the word feminist. Until her final years in power,she rarely publicly promoted the issue of advancement for women.
One of Merkel’s song choices for a military ceremony,which raised some eyebrows,was You Forgot the Colour Film,released in 1974 by East German-born punk singer Nina Hagen.
With authorities around the world scrambling to contain Omicron,Biden on Friday (AEDT) warned in no uncertain terms that infections will rise this winter.
France and Italy are signing a new treaty,keen to navigate together the economic uncertainty,a more assertive Russia,a rising China and a more disengaged US.