Mr Westerwelle is now Germany's least popular politician, an unusual feat for a foreign minister.
ECONOMIST: The liberal party touches new depths. Time for a new leader?
Whether Mr Westerwelle will take the rap for the FDP's electoral setbacks is also unclear.
ECONOMIST: The liberal party touches new depths. Time for a new leader?
Nor is a new golden age likely when Ms Merkel and Mr Westerwelle take office.
Mr Westerwelle's party will be charier of an activist industrial policy than were the Social Democrats.
Bit by bit, Mr Westerwelle is preparing his liberals for a probable spell in opposition.
Rubbish, says Mr Westerwelle, who reckons the liberal movement throughout Europe has a great future.
"We feel solidarity but we have to insist they fulfill what they promised, " Westerwelle continued.
Earlier this month, Westerwelle warned on the "dangerous tone" arguments on European Union were taking.
Mr Westerwelle's exit was surely necessary, but it may not be enough to restore his party's fortunes.
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Since Mr Seehofer had called Mr Westerwelle a crybaby just weeks earlier, it was a touching reconciliation.
Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign minister, articulated this last week when he warned against inflaming anti-EU sentiment.
"There can be no good future for Germany without a good future for a united Europe, " Westerwelle said.
Blame has fallen mainly on Guido Westerwelle, the foreign minister, who has dominated the party for the past decade.
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The German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said "cherry picking was not an option".
Guido Westerwelle, Germany's new foreign minister, chose Warsaw for his first foreign visit.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle wished the 79-year-old Mr Talabani "a quick and full recovery", without providing any further details.
"What we have agreed on in Europe to overcome the debt crisis", said Guido Westerwelle, "is agreed and it holds".
Westerwelle pointed to Germany's own debt woes in the wake of West Germany's reunification with East Germany during the 1990s.
"This clearly makes the FDP the third power among the parties in Germany, " the party's secretary-general Guido Westerwelle said after the vote.
On April 26th Mrs Merkel's deputy, the German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, declared that offering money too soon would undermine Greek discipline.
Without saying United States of Europe, Mr Westerwelle justifies the move to "more Europe" by citing the current crisis in the eurozone.
Already the German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has come out and said that the substance of the Greek reform (bailout) programme is non-negotiable.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle urged Italy to continue its reforms, and called for a government to be formed "as quickly as possible".
The German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, said: 'We think it is important that the pro-European course and the necessary reforms will be continued.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said that all the 25 nations which signed up to the treaty should follow Ireland's example and ratify it.
The Social Democratic foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will go, but his successor, almost certainly Guido Westerwelle of the Free Democratic Party, has not yet arrived.
Whatever happens, Mr Westerwelle looks bound to remain on the scene.
On Greece's debt repayments, "I could imagine that we do something about the time frame, " German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on German television channel ZDF.
In Berlin German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told members of parliament that the vote was about "whether you think that Europe should stand or whether it should fall".
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