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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during his end-of-the-year news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 19, 2023. Zelenskyy is expected to sign bilateral security agreements with Germany and France on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, as Kyiv works to shore up Western support nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale war. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy will sign security agreements with Germany, France as Kyiv shores up support

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In this photo provided by Bundesregierung, from left, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pose for a selfie on X, formerly Twitter, on Oct. 8, 2024. Both were seeing double when they met in Washington, D.C., this week and went on social media to share their mirror image with the world. (Bundesregierung via AP)

U.S. Sen. Coons and German Chancellor Scholz see double at Washington meeting

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President Joe Biden, right, crosses his fingers in response to a comment from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden calls GOP holdup of Ukraine aid ‘close to criminal neglect’ as he meets with Germany’s Scholz

By Aamer Madhani, Seung Min Kim and Geir Moulson - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives for the cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Biden and Germany’s Scholz will meet in D.C. as U.S. and E.U. aid for Ukraine hangs in the balance

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The last light of the day was reflected on the wet concrete slabs of the Holocaust Memorial at the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz - Birkenau on Jan. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Remembering the horrors of Auschwitz, German chancellor warns of antisemitism, threats to democracy

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

General view of the plenary chamber in the Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The German parliament on Thursday approved legislation that is intended to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers as Chancellor Olaf Scholz seeks to defuse migration as a political problem. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

German parliament approves legislation easing deportations of rejected asylum seekers

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People stand on the Alter Markt square during the "Potsdam defends itself" demonstrations in Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. Thousands of people gathered in Germany Sunday for demonstrations against the far right, among them Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his foreign minister, following a report that extremists recently met to discuss the deportation of millions of immigrants and others if they took power. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa via AP)

Demonstrations against the far right held in Germany following a report on a deportation meeting

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Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz makes a government statement in the Bundestag, Berlin, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is calling for calm and a readiness to accept compromises as the country faces protests by farmers angry about a plan to cut their fuel subsidies. He warned Saturday of a danger from extremists stoking rage against a backdrop of wider discontent. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP, File)

Germany’s Scholz warns of extremists stoking rage as farmers protest and discontent is high

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, center, talks to rescue workers from the German Life Saving Association during his visit to the flood area at the confluence of the Weser and Aller rivers, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. Chancellor Olaf Scholz took a sightseeing flight in an air force helicopter to gain an impression of the flood situation in the north of Lower Saxony. (Philipp Schulze/dpa via AP)

German chancellor tours flooded regions in the northwest, praises authorities and volunteers

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz poses for photographs during the recording of his New Year's speech at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz uses his New Year’s speech to convey confidence

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Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses a media conference at the conclusion of an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. European Union leaders concluded a second day of meetings on Friday in which they discussed, among other issues, the situation in Gaza. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz tests positive for COVID, visit by new Slovak leader canceled

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks at the SPD's regular federal party conference at the Berlin Exhibition Center, Berlin, Saturday Dec. 9, 2023. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

Germany’s Scholz confident of resolving budget crisis, says no dismantling of the welfare state

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

FILE - The November 1938 file photo shows a group of people standing outside a Jewish-owned shop in an unnamed German town, after the Kristallnacht, when Nazi-incited mass riots left more than 91 jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference, presents an interactive, virtual reality experience project to tell the story about the pogroms of the Kristallnacht or 'Night of broken glass'. (AP Photo, File)

Germans commemorate ‘Night of Broken Glass’ terror as antisemitism is on the rise again

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends the federal-state summit at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to meet Germany’s 16 state governors to address ways to deal with large numbers of migrants, an issue that has become a huge political problem for the government. Shelters for migrants and refugees are filling up and Scholz, who faces enormous pressure from the opposition and elsewhere to halt that trend, has said that “too many are coming.” (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and state governors agree on new measures to curb migration to Germany

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

FILE - A Federal Police officer speaks into his radio as he and a colleague track down a group of migrants who have illegally crossed the border from Poland into Germany, while on patrol in a forest near Forst south east of Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 11, 2023. Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to meet Germany's 16 state governors on Monday Nov. 6, 2023 to address ways to deal with large numbers of migrants, an issue that has become a huge political problem for the government. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Germany’s Scholz faces pressure to curb migration as he meets state governors

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives at the cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German Cabinet approves legislation meant to ease deportations of rejected asylum-seekers

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FILE - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a debate fter his speech at the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 19, 2023. Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany needs to start deporting “on a large scale” migrants who don’t have the right to stay in the country, adding to increasingly tough talk on migration since his coalition performed badly in two state elections earlier this month. Scholz’s comments were published Friday, Oct. 20, 2021, as a leading German opposition figure called for the center-left chancellor to dump his quarrelsome coalition partners and instead form a government with conservatives to deal with migration issues. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Scholz says that Germany needs to expand deportations of rejected asylum-seekers

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Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz addresses the United Nations Sustainable Development Forum, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Poland accuses Germany of meddling its its affairs by seeking answers on alleged visa scheme

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks on the second day of the budget 2024 debate at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Scholz calls for a broad pact to slash bureaucracy and modernize Germany

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives for a St. Michael reception of the German Bishops' Conference, the episcopal conference of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany, in Berlin, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Scholz on Monday tweeted a pirate-style picture of himself with a black eye patch and dark-red bruises on the right side of his face — the result of a jogging accident on the weekend. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Mild-mannered German Chancellor Scholz embraces ‘pirate’ image after jogging spill

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times