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  • Here the biographical treatment works well: the life of a man such as Joschka Fischer is exemplary.

    The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson – review James Buchan 2010

  • When former student radical and street fighter Joschka Fischer became environment minister of the state of Hesse in 1985, he famously took his oath of office wearing white sneakers and a threadbare tweed jacket.

    Germany's Greens: From Hippies to Hip Patrick McGroarty 2011

  • On Sunday, former German foreign minister and ex-Green party leader Joschka Fischer said in an interview with Der Spiegel magazine that the government's Security Council abstention and Mr. Westerwelle's Libya position was "perhaps the biggest foreign policy debacle in Germany's post-war history."

    German Foreign Minister Takes Hit for Libya Stance Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011

  • Joschka Fischer, a very admirable and savvy foreign policy thinker and the German Foreign Minister who tried to lead opposition to the invasion of Iraq

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strangeness of the Bush Era 2009

  • Here, for example, Joschka Fischer, a very admirable and savvy foreign policy thinker and the German Foreign Minister who tried to lead opposition to the invasion of Iraq, recalls how things seemed to him eight years ago:

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strangeness of the Bush Era 2009

  • Former foreign minister Joschka Fischer commissioned the study while in office in 2005, following a public debate over the ministry's Nazi past, with the ministry still publishing positive obituaries about former employees who were committed Nazis.

    Truth about German diplomats' collusion in Holocaust is revealed James Meikle 2010

  • Look, just because Paul Berman thought that Joschka Fischer and Bernard Kouchner should have supported the war in Iraq doesn ` t mean they actually did.

    Matthew Yglesias » Alan Wolfe on Liberal Hawks 2009

  • The Greens are getting more and more fundamentalistic since they lost the counterweight of (the former pragmatic Green figurehead Joschka) Fischer's warnings.

    Q&A With FDP Leader Guido Westerwelle 2009

  • And my friendship with Fischer would lead to one brief period of tension with Jack Strawafter Joschka stayed with us at Chase House during a visit to London and held his official talks at the Foreign Office only after we had had a long informal meeting over eggs, salmon and bagels.

    A Question of Honour Lord Michael Levy 2008

  • I had a particularly strong working relationship with two very gifted European diplomats: the EUs main foreign-policy representative Javier Solana, and Germanys foreign minister, Joschka Fischer.

    A Question of Honour Lord Michael Levy 2008

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