Former Banker and Scholz Associate: Germany’s New Finance Minister

Ex-banker And Scholz Ally: Germany’s New Finance Minister Text size 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 […]