German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends an event to open the so-called Girls’ Day on April 21, 2021 at the chancellery in Berlin. – Every year technical enterprises, universities, and research centres are invited to organise an open day for girls. According to the organisers, Girls’Day has evolved for companies “as an important instrument of their recruitment policy”. (Photo by Jörg CARSTENSEN / POOL / AFP)
Germany’s finance minister faces a grilling Thursday by lawmakers probing the collapse of payments firm Wirecard in a parliamentary inquiry that would also put Chancellor Angela Merkel in the hot seat.
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Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who has described the Wirecard scandal as “unparalleled” in Germany, is up before MPs, two days after Economy Minister Peter Altmaier appeared before the parliamentary committee.