Tag: Angela Merkel
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Merkel to host Greta Thunberg, other activists, to discuss climate
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, whose weekly school strikes for the climate sparked a global youth movement, is to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Thursday to discuss ways to mitigate climate change. Thunberg, 17, is being joined by other members of Fridays for Future, including Luisa Neubauer, the 24-year-old face of the protest…
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Merkel criticizes Chinese involvement in Hong Kong – but wants to keep talking
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised Chinese involvement in Hong Kong and called for a united European Union stance towards China. “It is an alarming development with regard to something that has always applied, which is ‘one country, two systems’. “And that is very much being questioned,’’ Merkel said on Monday during a meeting with…