Tag: Heiko Maas

• Tuesday, December 15th 2020 - 12:26 UTC

  Mercosur ready to address EU environmental concerns that have stalled trade deal

  

  Mercosur countries will address environmental concerns raised by the European Union that have stalled ratification of a free trade deal between the two trade blocs, Argentina’s foreign minister said on Monday.

• Saturday, May 9th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Germany fears a hard Brexit, as UK moves away from political negotiations

  

  German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in a newspaper interview on Saturday there was a growing risk of a hard Brexit in the midst of the coronavirus crisis as negotiations between Britain and the European Union so far on the future trade relationship had yielded hardly any progress.

• Tuesday, July 24th 2018 - 06:21 UTC

  Foreign secretary pleads for more EU flexibility in Brexit talks: fears of a “no deal by accident”

  

  A no-deal Brexit would damage British relations with Europe for a generation, Jeremy Hunt warned as he pleaded for Brussels to show more flexibility in negotiations. The Foreign Secretary used a visit to Berlin to say that while a failure to achieve a Brexit deal would be “challenging” for the UK, it would “thrive” in the long term.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2015 - 07:49 UTC

  German Executive and Judiciary clash over freedom of the press: top prosecutor sacked

  

  Germany's justice minister has sacked the country's top prosecutor, who had accused the government of interfering with a treason investigation. Heiko Maas said he no longer had confidence in Harald Range, dismissing his statements as “incomprehensible”.