He has already amalgamated the Palestinian Authority's security forces and dropped hints that he may consider appointing a prime minister, in line with a plan from Germany's foreign minister, Joschka Fischer.
If Mr Fischer's support for that line could be proved, said Edmund Stoiber, Bavaria's powerful premier, then he was no longer acceptable as Germany's foreign minister.
Germany's Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, telephoned Mr Ruggiero to express his regret at his departure.
Joschka Fischer, Germany's foreign minister, remains adamant that no German soldier will be sent to Iraq.
Germany's foreign minister expressed concern over plans to scrap the anti-ballistic missile treaty.
Yet for Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, these difficulties are no reason to pull the troops out of Afghanistan.
After all, there are plenty of generally respected politicians (think of Germany's foreign minister, Joschka Fischer) whose youthful enthusiasms pushed them to the far left.
But Germany's foreign minister said Tuesday that Pakistan had "a few days" to raise the billions of dollars it needed to keep itself from financial collapse.
Meanwhile, Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is expected to raise the issue of "secret" prisons in talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on Tuesday.
To some, one highlight of Avignon was a successful push by Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, to demand an inquiry into the causes and conduct of the war.
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Perhaps that is why, in the reactions provoked by the Euro-federalist speech in May by Germany's foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, Mr Moscovici has mostly had to keep his own counsel.
France, Italy and Portugal have backed a proposal by Germany's foreign minister, Klaus Kinkel, that the European Union should send representatives of the troika (holders of its current, past and future presidencies) to Algiers to offer assistance.
On the day that Germany's foreign minister was winging his way to Washington this week to question the Americans about their bombing of Baghdad, state prosecutors in Frankfurt launched criminal investigations into his past relations with other no less questionable bombers of a more revolutionary bent.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) A long-standing debate over whether Germany still owes Greece war reparations stemming from the Nazi occupation erupted anew Thursday in a spat between Greece's foreign minister and Germany's finance minister.
Guido Westerwelle, Germany's new foreign minister, chose Warsaw for his first foreign visit.
EU's rotating presidency, it was pushed by the Italians and Germans, in particular by Joschka Fischer, Germany's Green foreign minister.
The French were annoyed when Joschka Fischer, Germany's Green foreign minister, announced without consulting his colleagues in Paris an entry date for the first batch of countries seeking to join.
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Joschka Fischer, Germany's Green foreign minister, now says that his lifelong aversion to militarism has been superseded by an even more powerful imperative: the need to avoid a repetition of the Nazi death camps.
Mr Westerwelle has been tipped by some to be Germany's next foreign minister after his party achieved its best-ever election result, but he refused to be drawn on the details of his discussion with the chancellor.
Similarly, when Chancellor Merkel told a meeting of MPs from her Christian Democrat (CDU) party that Cyprus's business model was broken, that would have played well in the private meeting - but badly beyond Germany's borders (including in neighbouring Luxembourg, where the foreign minister accused Germany of "striving for hegemony").
Mr Westerwelle is now Germany's least popular politician, an unusual feat for a foreign minister.
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Munich, Germany (CNN) -- Indirect talks over Tehran's nuclear program will resume this month, Iran's foreign minister announced Sunday at a security conference in Germany.
Germany's interior minister proposed an immigration law intended to open the door to the many thousands of foreign workers, mainly skilled ones, that the country may need in the decades ahead.
They reportedly are planning to gain jurisdiction over the United States by bringing a case against one of its NATO partners (perhaps Germany, whose Green Party Foreign Minister might readily agree to jurisdiction) on the grounds that U.S. allies participate in setting nuclear policy for NATO.
Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, head of the Syrian National Coalition, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of an international security conference in Munich, Germany, Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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