Westerwelle

If Mr Westerwelle has his way, the new coalition will begin to move Germany out of the shadow of "father state" .

Foreign ministers are usually among Germany's most popular politicians; Mr Westerwelle is among the least.

Mr Westerwelle, now 47, was one of the few who stayed.

That would be a rebuff to Mrs Merkel's government and perhaps a fatal blow to Mr Westerwelle's transformation agenda.

Leading the FDP into a federal election for the third time, Mr Westerwelle accepts much of this.

The German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle of the liberal FDP expressed his disappointment.

Many noticed when Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign minister, paid his first visit not (like his predecessors) to Paris, but to Warsaw.

After a blizzard hit Germany a few weeks ago, Westerwelle also mobilized unemployment recipients to shovel snow.

The coalition's weakest link is the liberal FDP and its abrasive leader, Guido Westerwelle, who also serves as foreign minister.

But Mr Westerwelle, who as foreign minister has made much of good relations with Poland, says no.

Much of the blame will fall on Guido Westerwelle, the party's chairman and Germany's foreign minister.

Since Mr Seehofer had called Mr Westerwelle a crybaby just weeks earlier, it was a touching reconciliation.

Thus Guido Westerwelle, responding to the fuss over a column on welfare he wrote earlier this month in Die Welt.

"The budget law is a matter of national parliaments, " Guido Westerwelle, Germany's Foreign Minister, said in early May.

With this, she pulls rank on Mr Westerwelle and positions herself as the guardian of economic stability.

Guido Westerwelle, its foreign minister, has begun a campaign to promote German as the "language of ideas. "

Guido Westerwelle, Germany's new foreign minister, chose Warsaw for his first foreign visit.

Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has said, if the crackdown continues, sanctions are inevitable.

Many German lawmakers are uncomfortable with Mr. Westerwelle's policy, and Ms. Merkel has made efforts to repair relations within NATO.

Yet Mr Westerwelle ranks behind many cabinet colleagues, perhaps because he shows more passion for domestic politics than diplomacy.

That collaboration laid the groundwork for their "Christian-liberal" coalition, in which Mr Westerwelle now serves as foreign minister.

Mr Westerwelle hoped, mistakenly, that distancing Germany from the bellicosity of France and Britain would help his party.

Westerwelle, Germany's first openly gay foreign minister, has dismissed the claims as "without foundation" .

WHEN Guido Westerwelle, Germany's foreign minister, tires of sneers at home he escapes to the Middle East.

Now Mr Juppe's open contempt for Mr Westerwelle raises eyebrows among the most hardened Brussels hands.

It is the FDP's head, Guido Westerwelle, whose leadership is now most under threat.

Following the dialogue, Yang and Westerwelle jointly met the press and took questions from the journalists.

Mr Westerwelle is expected to become foreign minister and vice-chancellor.

Mr Westerwelle became foreign minister and Mrs Merkel's deputy as vice-chancellor.

Yet colleagues who object to Mr Westerwelle's tone find less to quarrel with on the substance.

In Mr Seehofer's case, as the older man, he almost certainly made the first move with Mr Westerwelle.

The FDP's leader, Guido Westerwelle, says he will sign no coalition agreement without it.

Guido Westerwelle, who is both the FDP's chairman and the foreign minister, now says that deficit reduction takes precedence.

On Libya, she let her foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, who is also head of the FDP, take the lead.

"We have heard the message, " said Mr Westerwelle, who is also foreign minister.