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Lafontaine: “Scholz a big disappointment - but the worst is Baerbock”: Oskar Lafontaine has spoken out in favor of “freezing” the war in Ukraine ...
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Lafontaine on the former chancellor: “The bottom line is that Schröder is not doing badly”
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Shortly before his death, Wolfgang Schäuble completed his memoirs, which have now been published. In one chapter he describes in detail his relationship with ... Show more www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/landespolitik/saarland-mitgefuehl-mit-lafontaine-kritik-an-altmaier-so-urteilte-schaeuble-ueber-politiker_aid-110302353
The Merzig master baker Randolf Jobst leads the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht party in Saarland. Oskar Lafontaine praises him highly ... Show more www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/landespolitik/buendnis-sahra-wagenknecht-im-saarland-randolf-jobst-ploetzlich-parteichef_aid-109659603
Leo Petry (75): A man with many faces: Leo Petry rose through decades in state politics and the Saar economy to become a diplomat for the Grand Duchy of ...
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Growth Opportunities Act: Friedrich Merz plays risky power games: Friedrich Merz wants to try to stop the plans for the Growth Opportunities Act through the ...
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Oskar Lafontaine's special anniversary: tribute to Franz Müntefering: 25 years ago, Oskar Lafontaine left the red-green coalition that he helped found ...
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Paid articlePaid Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht founds state party in Saarland: After Saxony and Thuringia, since Friday evening there has also been a Saarland regional association ...
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Politics: 25 years ago: When Oskar Lafontaine plunged the SPD deep into crisis: A piece of post-war history: 25 years ago, Oskar Lafontaine resigned as finance ...
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Wagenknecht Alliance: The party that fell from the sky: What gap does the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance actually want to close? Is it about the boomer generation ...
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Paid articlePaid Müntefering's rise: the career of the late bloomer: This is not the first time the SPD has been in troubled waters. 20 years ago, it was party chairman Franz ...
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Wolfgang Möller face to face with Manuela Schwesig: Meeting a prominent politician was a wish that had never been brought to the ASB wish car in MV before.
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Paid articlePaid Interview: Franz Müntefering: “You don’t force a person to eat standing up”: Franz Müntefering was one of the country's most influential politicians ...
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Sahra Wagenknecht after the party conference: Is she serious?: Sahra Wagenknecht founded her party at the weekend. Is there anything useful coming out of this? ...
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Quick Glance: Wagenknecht Criticizes Politics in Inaugural Speech
- New Wagenknecht alliance takes shape at first party congress.
- Founder explains her political vision during founding party congress.
- Wagenknecht alliance presents itself as a gathering place for dissatisfied individuals from across the entire political spectrum.
- Wagenknecht calls for changes in politics and urges unity.
Ukrainians who receive social benefits but live in their homeland? Oskar Lafontaine mentioned a case from Merzig on Deutschlandfunk ... Show more
Speech at BSW party conference: Lafontaine accuses Israel of war crimes in the Gaza Strip
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BSW party conference in Berlin: Oskar Lafontaine accuses Israel of war crimes in the Gaza Strip
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Oskar Lafontaine was Prime Minister and federal leader of the SPD and the Left. He was independent of a party for two years, and has now joined a new party. Show more
America's war against Europe - The World Week: Even the most loyal followers should have noticed that the USA is waging an economic war against Europe in 2022 ...
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Dillingen: Entire faction switches to Sahra Wagenknecht: Surprise in the Dillinger city council: An entire faction has now joined Sahra Wagenknecht and her new ...
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Can Sahra Wagenknecht shrink the AfD in the East?: This weekend the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance will meet for the first party conference - and Oskar Lafontaine ...
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Millionaire Ralph Suikat: He was Sahra Wagenknecht's missing piece of the puzzle: Sahra Wagenknecht spent a long time looking for an organizer and someone with ...
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“Putin cuddler and Wagenknecht fan”: Alice Schwarzer insults FDP politician - and faces headwinds
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stern-Classic: The day of the assassination attempt on Wolfgang Schäuble: It was the day that changed his life: On October 12, 1990, an assassin shot down ...
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"Erdling" by Emma Braslavsky: Where is Sahra?: In Emma Braslavsky's novel "Erdling" a detective is looking for Oskar Lafontaine's wife Sahra Wagenknecht - and ...
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Under control: How Wagenknecht builds her party in Thuringia: One is already in the BSW, the other at least thinks the party is good: the then SPD state leader ...
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Paid articlePaid Government marches against the people: Is the traffic light installing a new GDR? Rocky Rocchigiani and the flair of the old Federal Republic ...
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Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht in Berlin: Lafontaine speaks at the party conference in the Kosmos cinema
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Paid articlePaid Former parliamentary group leader: Bartsch holds Lafontaine partly responsible for the Left Party crisis
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Quick Glance: Lafontaine's Impact on Wagenknecht's Actions
- The end of the faction offers the party a chance to stop self-absorption.
- Bartsch discusses how he is handling Wagenknecht.
Rumor or truth: Did Oskar Lafontaine play football in Eichhofen?: The small brewery town of Eichhofen in the Regensburg district has just 110 inhabitants ...
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Lafontaine near Maischberger: "It would be better to get cheap energy directly from Russia"
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"NachDenkSeiten": Wagenknecht's writing brigade: The news portal “NachDenkSeiten” is celebrating its 20th anniversary. What began as a critical website has now ...
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Comment: Lindner doesn't do Lafontaine and that's a good thing: The Federal Minister of Finance may be ailing, but he is not falling. And that's a good thing for ...
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Where there is a problem for Lafontaine: Wagenknecht positions future party towards AfD and Putin
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New alliance around Wagenknecht: Lafontaine rejects joint responsibility for Left Party split
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Wagenknecht should not become for the Left what Lafontaine became for the SPD: If a “Wagenknecht party” were to establish itself permanently, it would be a ...
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Paid articlePaid Oskar Lafontaine seeks support for Sahra Wagenknecht's party: Sahra Wagenknecht wants to found a new party. Her husband Oskar Lafontaine is now actively ...
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Lafontaine: Wagenknecht party will score points with non-voters: Oskar Lafontaine supports his wife Sahra Wagenknecht's planned new party. But he himself remains ...
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“The meaning of life is love”: Oskar Lafontaine on German crises, green warmongers, paths to peace and the question of what moves him and his wife Sahra ...
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Bartsch sharply attacks Wagenknecht's group again: The founding of Wagenknecht's rival party is also in focus at the Left party conference ...
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Founding a party: What Wagenknecht risks: Sahra Wagenknecht faces a dilemma with her new party: she can only pose a threat to the AfD if she becomes more ...
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Sahra Wagenknecht's new party: these are the three biggest problems: Sahra Wagenknecht's new party could win over ten percent in elections, according to polls ...
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Quick Glance: BSW party | Expert: AfD should be worried
- Sahra Wagenknecht to form her own party
- Expecting a mudslinging battle - a threat to AfD
- Success of new political group due to support from current AfD sympathizers
- Wagenknecht shares more similarities with AfD voters than with Left party
Years-long dispute with Lafontaine: Left-wing MP apparently wants to switch to the SPD
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Quick Glance: Left-wing MP to join SPD after long-standing dispute with Lafontaine
- Thomas Lutze, a Left-wing MP, is planning to join the SPD faction, according to SPIEGEL.
- The Left party in the Bundestag may lose its faction status.
- According to reports, Thomas Lutze, a member of the Bundestag, has decided to leave the Left party and switch to the SPD.
- Saarland Left-wing politician Lutze gained attention through his years-long dispute with former Left party leader Oskar Lafontaine.
Left-wing member of the Bundestag: Thomas Lutze goes to the Saar-SPD: After the thunderous departure of Oskar Lafontaine shortly before the 2022 state elections ...
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Paid articlePaid Our new Germany edition: Declaration of love to the Germans. Oskar Lafontaine on Moscow and Berlin. Jeffrey Sachs on peace ...
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Lafontaine and Schröder: How a male antagonism changed the political landscape: Once a rift and back: Gerhard Schröder and Oskar Lafontaine are said to have ...
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He is the curse of the SPD, but not a bore: Oskar Lafontaine turns 80: He may be a curse of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. But at least Oskar Lafontaine ...
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CDU boss in the “ntv early start”: Merz rejects accusations of cooperation with AfD in Thuringia
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Quick Glance: Günther distances himself from Thuringian CDU
- Günther distances himself from CDU's behavior in Thuringia
- Own initiatives only have prospects of success with the support of the AfD
- Conservative party demands a more consistent stance towards radicalized AfD
- Günther contradicts CDU Secretary General Linnemann
Honor in Hanover: Gerhard Schröder receives badge of honor for 60 years of SPD: Gerhard Schröder has been in the SPD for 60 years and will now be honored for ...
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Paid articlePaid Even if the German left doesn't want to admit it: many workers vote conservative because left-wing parties do not reflect their concerns ... Show more trib.al/WeI4bc6
After a long enmity: two alpha wolves make peace: Both wanted to become Chancellor. Only one made it. Now Gerhard Schröder congratulates Oskar Lafontaine on his ...
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Gerhard Schröder and Oskar Lafontaine: Once a rift - and back?: Gerhard Schröder and Oskar Lafontaine shaped German politics for decades, but in 1999 they fell ...
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Over 50 years in politics, now retired: Oskar Lafontaine turns 80 on Saturday. He can't leave politics completely. In the big SZ interview ... Show more www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/landespolitik/interview-oskar-lafontaine-wird-80-wird-er-teil-der-wagenknecht-partei_aid-97503957
Schröder and Lafontaine: This is how their reconciliation could have gone: Secret meetings with wives: Gerhard Schröder and Oskar Lafontaine got along ...
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SPD: Chancellor, hear the signals: The unity of the SPD is the greatest support for Scholz. But she is losing weight. First comrades remember the grand coalition ...
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Paid articlePaid Reinhard Klimmt: The man who brought Schröder and Lafontaine back together: First he was Lafontaine's crown prince, then a minister in former Chancellor ...
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Spiked helmet instead of dove of peace: Oskar Lafontaine on Berlin's imperial architecture and how it is changing German politics ...
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Quick Glance: Architecture and Politics: Lafontaine and Prof. Bell on Misunderstandings and Changes
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Sahra Wagenknecht and the Left Party: Are they fooling everyone?: Wagenknecht should assure the left by Friday that they do not want to found their own party ...
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Quick Glance: Left party demands Wagenknecht to give up political mandate
- Left party board distances itself from Wagenknecht and asks for mandate return
- Wagenknecht is considering creating a new party
- Wagenknecht has repeatedly stated that she sees no future for the Left party
- Wagenknecht will reflect on her future until the end of the year
Is the Wagenknecht party coming?: The left on the precipice: For months, Sahra Wagenknecht has kept her party on edge. If its best-known politician leaves the ...
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Paid articlePaid Marie-Christine Ostermann: Green is not her color: Marie-Christine Ostermann is the new voice of family entrepreneurs. The criticism of the traffic light ...
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Paid articlePaid Lose Luder: Sahra Wagenknecht with Désirée Nick on her marriage to Oskar Lafontaine
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Ex-SPD Minister Krajewski: Special Olympics Manager and her plans: In the 1990s, Christiane Krajewski was number two in the Saar cabinet behind Oskar Lafontaine ...
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Paid articlePaid Hugo Lacour - this name makes the alarm bells ring in many Saarlanders. The Saarbrücken ex-red light king was not only a convicted murderer ... Show more www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/podcast/tatort-saarland-hugo-lacour-was-rotlichtkoenig-zum-verhaengnis-wurde_aid-87221997
Ukraine talk on Maischberger: "If anyone is interested in a long war, it's China"
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"Maischberger": Lafontaine blames the USA for the Ukraine war: Oskar Lafontaine not only received criticism on Tuesday evening at "Maischberger" ...
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Paid articlePaid German intellectuals: a little peace: Maxim Biller reflects on the wrong, ugly word "peace idiots." But just: Why do intellectuals' words about the Ukraine war ...
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Paid articlePaidQuick Glance: Participants are dishonest: Ukraine's Foreign Minister slams Berlin's "Demo for Peace"
- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has harshly criticized the Berlin protest for peace talks with Russia, which was organized by Sahra Wagenknecht and Alice Schwarzer.
- "I assure you that every single Ukrainian, even the soldier in the trench killing the Russian soldier who is attacking him right now, wants peace more than the most peaceful demonstrator at the Brandenburg Gate," Kuleba continued.
- Kuleba quickly requested additional ammunition supplies from Germany.
- Kuleba refused to speculate on how long Ukraine could hold the city.
The true crime podcast "Tatort Saarland" is about the red light affair of Saar politics - It was triggered by none other than ex-red light king Hugo Lacour ... Show more www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/podcast/tatort-saarland-hugo-lacour-und-die-rotlichtaffaere-der-saar-politik_aid-87169649
Sahra Wagenknecht no longer wants to run for Die Linke: Sahra Wagenknecht has long been controversial in her party "Die Linke". Now the politician has announced ...
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Saarland News - The top news from March 6th at a glance: Is Sahra Wagenknecht planning a new party? with Oskar Lafontaine in the background? Procedure initiated: ...
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Podcast Tatort Saarland: Hugo Lacour - the ex-red light king from Saarbrücken: In the true crime podcast "Tatort Saarland" we talk about the ex-red light king ...
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Oskar Lafontaine, what would you do better than Olaf Scholz?: Oskar Lafontaine talks about Germany, NATO and war in an interview. How would he act if he had the ...
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Quick Glance: Russiagate: How the American Media Unleashed Putin.
- This allegation was spread by the American media in order to destabilize Trump.
- Did Putin play a role in Donald Trump's election victory?
- Developments in Ukraine and the country itself were increasingly paralleling the Russia scandal involving Donald Trump, which began in mid-2016 and starred Vladimir Putin.
- Day after day, politicians and the media vilified Trump and Putin.
Wagenknecht and Schwarzer: Open to the right - a manifesto for all.: Change of heart with Wagenknecht: one accepts admittedly no right-wing extremist flags on ...
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