Frank-Walter Steinmeier

The minister sounded more hawkish than his predecessors in Germany's previous coalition, the SPD's Sigmar Gabriel and Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Gabriel and Steinmeier took a principled stand on EU sanctions over the Ukraine conflict and on previous US strikes in Syria, but they were better known for ...

Indian Hotels' Puneet Chhatwal flaunts his German during President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's India visit ... And Puneet Chhatwal, the CEO of IHCL, couldn't have asked for a better opportunity to brush up his German-speaking skills than greeting Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the president of Germany, while ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) and his wife Elke Budenbender at Air Force station in New Delhi on March 22, 2018. All pics/AFP. The president and his wife received a ceremonial reception at the presidential palace in New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with President Frank-Walter ...

The walls of the houses all over the city are plastered with huge posters depicting the visitor from Germany alongside the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi: "Welcome Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Varanasi. The Cultural Capital of India." The newspaper carries an appeal to the local population from the ...

Delivering a speech at Delhi University on Friday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier underlined the need for religious tolerance and defending the rights of minorities. "We should continue to engage in rigorous but respectful debates, in political parties and with our political opponents," said ...

NEW DELHI: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived on Thursday on a four-day visit to India. The ministry of external affairs spokesperson, Raveesh Kumar, informed on Twitter that Minister of State (MoS) Drinking Water and Sanitation SS Ahluwalia received the German President, who was ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has visited India several times as foreign minister and vice chancellor. His upcoming five-day visit, starting from Thursday, March 22, will focus on boosting economic and strategic ties between the two countries. Germany is India's largest trade partner in the ...

VARANASI: Ten days after French President Emmanuel Macron visited Varanasi, the city is all set to host another world leader - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier - on March 22. A joint team of German embassy officials and Central security agencies reached the city on Sunday. On Monday, it ...

India will host German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier next week. The visit is the first major outreach from Germany after the new government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel was sworn in on March 14. “This will be his first visit to India as the President of Germany. The German President will be ...

Gabriel has been Germany's vice chancellor since 2013. He served as environment minister in Merkel's first grand coalition between 2005 and 2009, and as economy minister from 2013 to 2017 as part of the outgoing coalition. He took over from Frank-Walter Steinmeier as foreign minister at the beginning ...

Last year, three AfD members left the regional parliament over what they saw as a “swing to the right” within the party, according to a Deutsche Welle report. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier reacted to Poggenburg's speech in February, saying: “What I see is that there are politicians who use ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday formally proposed Chancellor Angela Merkel be re-elected to her post on Monday, ending months of uncertainty following the German elections last September. The path to a renewed Merkel chancellorship was freed on Sunday when the Social ...

When Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was about to head to his limousine in Tokyo on his pre-Olympic visit, his motorcade to the airport was briefly delayed because of security arrangements for US Vice President Mike Pence. It appears even presidential motorcades can outrank each other.

Germany's head of state, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has urged South Korea to stay engaged with the North. The president ... German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in that he is "convinced that there must be dialogue with North Korea." Speaking during a ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Tuesday with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to seek to implement a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union as soon as possible. “Japan and Germany will continue to hold the flag of free trade high,” Abe said in a joint news conference ...