Berlin, Nov 7, 2024 (AFP) - Ex-banker and Scholz ally: Germany's new finance minister

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2024-11-07

Joerg Kukies, Germany's new finance minister, is a former investment banker who has long been one of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's closest advisers, most recently as a state secretary. The German leader first brought Kukies into the corridors of power in Berlin in 2018, when Scholz was finance minister under Angela Merkel -- a move that caused much consternation in his centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). At the time, Kukies was working as the c......

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