Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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France's Laurent Fabius, Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Poland's Radoslaw Sikorski, who's still around, acted as European witnesses to this agreement.

Russian envoy Vladimir Lukin was associated with the process but didn't sign in the same manner as the EU foreign ministers signed.

But the agreement required restoration of the 2004 constitutional arrangement, constitutional reforms, presidential elections early and no later than December of 2014, and especially important for Lavrov's argument, the formation of a national unity government within 10 days.

Number eight: name either the current president or current chancellor of Germany.

The president is Frank-Walter Steinmeier, or Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

For an American, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier or Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

I'm, I'm not, not making fun of anybody.

Uh, my dad speaks fluent German.

Germany has been an important strategic and economic partner for decades and the additional forty billion euros intended investment reflects our ambition to invest in that relationship.

Berlin had earlier rolled out the red carpet for President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who met Chancellor Frederick Mors after earlier being received with military honors by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Security was very tight for the visit and the visit comes as United States war against Iran has roiled the Gulf region.

The President of United States, Donald Trump, he is using his tough diplomatic negotiations for now and this is unsettling for many mid-sized powers.

President Sheikh Mohammed has begun a state visit to Germany aimed at strengthening ties between the two countries.

The UAE president meets German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and is due to meet Chancellor Friedrich Merz with talks focused on deepening economic and development cooperation.

The UAE and Germany are expected to sign agreements in artificial intelligence, energy and investment on Thursday.

Bilateral trade between the two countries exceeded $15.5bn last year, with about 2,000 German businesses operating in the UAE.

This was not against the law, but it was certainly against democratic and parliamentary practice, because he needed a change in the basic law.

So he started with a big betrayal, and the voters simply start to remember this, and So we cannot, I cannot know because Steinmeier, our president, has said that he would basically block changes in government.

So maybe Mertz will hang on, but nothing good is going to come out of it.

To you, Ulrike, you know, what's the read through for the rest of Europe? How will parties like France's National Rally or indeed the Netherlands at PVV look at this?

Poroshenko but it was just you know as we've been discussing every time he did he faced domestic hostility from the ultra-nationalists who threatened his life and you know meanwhile in Washington Russiagate was happening Trump was being impeached for pausing weapons to Ukraine and there was just no space at all in Washington for their for there to be diplomacy with Russia to resolve the Donbass war which is now exploded into Europe's largest ground war since World War II

It's even worse than that, is that those so-called anti-capitulationists who forced or allegedly forced to link his hand, there was a Steinmeier formula, which was just a way of implementing Minsk.

But what was interesting is that how many Western commentators, particularly British ones, and our leading think tanks in London were violently opposed to Minsk.

and reinforced the view, and people like Zelensky, of course, are very oriented to Western leadership, Western elite opinion.