The German president visited Kalavryta in 2000 to pay his respects but stopped short of an official apology so as not to broach the topic of reparations.
Christian Wulff, the German president, is brazening out a scandal.
Yet the people do not elect the German president.
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The German Bundesbank president also made hawkish comments on the EU bailout process.
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Yesterday, the French president and the German chancellor were noticeably cool.
The Observer turns its attention to the prime minister, claiming that he suffered an "embarrassing setback" while on his trip to Berlin to iron out differences over Iraq with the German Chancellor and the French President.
All of which just adds to the burden of responsibility on the French president and the German chancellor as they meet today, to at least avoid saying anything in public that exacerbates the fears that the eurozone remains a whole philosophy way from having an answer to its debt-induced woes ( see my post of yesterday for more on this).
The United States enjoys no similar ability to apply the thumbscrews to the German economic establishment but President Barack Obama can still be a vital part of the solution.
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Days earlier in Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the French president and German chancellor, had all but given Britain an ultimatum: accept their plan to rewrite the laws of the EU, or prompt the 17 members of the euro zone to seek a separate deal and risk British isolation.
The remains of 130, 000 unidentified soldiers are kept in the ossuary at Douaumont, near Verdun, but disagreement on how the remains should be dealt with meant Douaumont was not officially inaugurated until three years ago, in a ceremony attended by the late President Mitterrand and the former German chancellor, Helmut Kohl.
The Economist would rather that this were an elected president on the German model, with the monarchy abolished.
Mr. Ballard has spent decades recovering relics and finding wrecks, including the passenger liner Titanic, the German battleship Bismarck and President John F.
Determined not to let the summit pass without an agreement, Ms. Merkel invited the French president, who objected to the German push for bondholder losses, to Berlin.
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There can rarely have been a more important meeting than that between the newly elected French President, Francois Hollande, and the German Chancellor tomorrow.
The President of the German Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, warned that the bloc was "constantly mutualising risks and weakening the agreed rules".
John Hulsman, an American analyst at the German Council on Foreign Relations, predicts trouble over Iran at a first meeting between the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the next American president.
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The president of the German Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann - a former economic adviser to Chancellor Merkel, and an increasingly influential player in the eurozone crisis - has been indicating the kind of bargain Germany would demand.
With the energetic Mr Venizelos also serving as his deputy prime minister, Mr Papandreou appears to have distanced himself from the day-to-day handling of Greece's plight, although he speaks frequently to Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and to Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.
We've learned that both the French President and the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) are willing to give some ground, to resolve this crisis. (A lot, in the case of President Sarkozy.) But this morning the German Chancellor was again giving very little away.
Elsewhere, Bayern Munich striker Luca Toni looks set to depart the Allianz Arena in the near future after president Uli Hoeness confirmed he can leave the German Budesliga club.
During the week German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to have phoned the Italian president to explore the possibility of a change of government.
And next Friday the President will meet with German Chancellor Merkel here at the White House.
It was not a surprise that yesterday Angela Merkel's spokesman at the German Chancellery said she still backs President Sarkozy.
The market place reacted little to the results of the meeting Tuesday between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who discussed what to do about the European Union debt crisis.
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Mr Murphy accused the EU of "fine words but no action", after the decision by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to sign a deal with President Nazarbayev on the extraction of rare earths.
The President-elect's German friends will urge him to be nice to Mr. Putin.
With the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French President Nicholas Sarkozy reaching agreement on the need for a new EU treaty, this debate may begin to permeate even the politics of Northern Ireland.
Now, the market place awaits the results of a meeting Tuesday between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who are discussing what to do about the European Union debt crisis.
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During the debate, German social democrat MEP Wolfgang Kreissl-Dorfler attacked the recent comments by former US President George W Bush on the use of waterboarding as an intelligence gathering tool.
It was a focus of the meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel last Monday.
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