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unusual facts about Merkel-Raute



Alexander Merkel

Merkel noted that naturalization should not be a problem, considering that an American-born Jon Robert Holden played for the Russia national basketball team.

Eckart von Klaeden

Eckart Peter Hans von Klaeden (born 18 November 1965 in Hanover, Lower Saxony) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union, serving as Minister of State at the German Chancellery since 28 October 2009 (after the German federal election, September 2009, Angela Merkel formed a black-yellow coalition and her Cabinet Merkel II).

German federal election, 2009

One of the lighter moments in the campaign came when CDU candidate Vera Lengsfeld released a campaign poster featuring herself and Merkel in a way that emphasised their cleavage.

German federal election, 2013

Merkel-Raute: Described by The Guardian as "probably one of the most recognisable hand gestures in the world", Angela Merkel's trademark has become a political symbol used by both her supporters and opponents.

Gustav Merkel

Gustav (Adolf) Merkel (November 12, 1827 in Oberoderwitz, near Zittau – October 30, 1885 in Dresden) was a German organist and composer.

Kostas Gousgounis

Member of the Greek Parliament Liana Kanelli has declared that if she had to choose between the subtext of the Sarkozi-Merkel alliance, which supports Berlusconi on one hand, and Gousgounis on the other, she would choose Gousgounis even in his old age.

Max Mannheimer

During campaigning for the German federal election, 2013, he invited Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Dachau, making her the first chancellor to visit a former concentration camp.

Nuclear power in Germany

Physicist Amory Lovins has said: "Chancellor Merkel was so shocked by Fukushima that she turned Germany’s energy focus from nuclear (of which she closed 41% and will close the rest within a decade) to efficiency and renewables. That’s supported by three-fourths of Germans and opposed by no political party".

Raute people

The closest well-documented language to Raute known at the present time is Chepang, spoken by an ethnic group of west-central Nepal who also have been hunter-gatherers until the current generation.

Sikhanyiso Ndlovu

Responding to Merkel's criticism of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, Ndlovu told her to "shut up or ship out," saying Germany needed a head of state like Otto von Bismarck.

Therese Merkel

Merkel herself has participated in Melodifestivalen three times as of 2010: in Melodifestivalen 2003, Melodifestivalen 2005, Melodifestivalen 2009 and in Melodifestivalen 2010, all four times as a member of the popular pop group Alcazar.

Warrior and Peter One

They have released the single "Danke Frau Merkel," a political dissent of present Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as "Tokio Hotel diss," attacking the band "Tokio Hotel," which was highlighted in the April 23, 2008 issue of the German newspaper Bild.


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