Better to win, or go out with a bang, than get weaker and weaker like John Major did.”Mr Schr?’s personal approval rating shot up six points last week to 54 per cent Even if he doesn’t want to be, he remains a popular figure. Mr Schr?, now 61, has reportedly told friends that this election is a clear choice “between victory and Viktoria”.Mr Schr?, known as the “bosses’ Chancellor”, is comfortable in big-business circles and there are rumours that he plans to go on to work for the Russian energy firm Gazprom. He could also supple- ment his €7,500 (£5,000)-a-month Chancellor’s pension and €326,000 “transition money” by giving speeches earning thousands a time.”You’d have to ask the man himself, of course, but my bet is he wants to make money now,” said Professor Gert-Joachim Glaessner, a political scientist at Berlin’s Humboldt University “He knows he has no political future. The couple also recently adopted a four-year-old Russian girl, Viktoria. Doris Schr?-Kopf, his fourth wife, is 20 years his junior and is said to be keen to move to New York to restart her journalistic career after seven years in her husband’s shadow.

He could see that just wasn’t going to happen in his final year in office.”As well as facing another year of his unpopular reform programme, blocked by the CDU majority in parliament’s upper house, he has good personal reasons for wanting out. What about a third term in office? A massive reduction in the five million Germans unemployed? Sustained growth for his country’s beleaguered economy? It conveyed the image of a man who almost wanted to lose.”You certainly get the impression he’s had enough,” said Tom Levine, a leading German political commentator “It’s why he called early elections in the first place He wanted to be Chancellor so he could get things done. Not long ago a couple of 12-year-olds sent by the state broadcaster, ARD, asked him to write down his greatest wish. He paused thoughtfully, and then scrawled the simple word “health” This raised many eyebrows.

Meanwhile, the rhetoric of the campaign is becoming bitter.
Furious about claims that the CDU has radical neoconservative plans for “the end of social Germany”, the party’s general secretary, Volker Kauder, said of Mr Schr?: “That a serving Chancellor should lie so brazenly is unique in the history of the Federal Republic.” With the SPD leader still far more personally popular than his somewhat colourless adversary, other CDU figures have taken up the theme that he is a liar, an unusual departure in Germany’s normally sober politics.The election race appears to have revived Mr Schr?, who has often seemed weary of the cares of office. Opinion polls are showing for the first time that the CDU and its coalition partners, the Free Democrats, could fall short of a parliamentary majority. Although Mrs Merkel remains on course to become Germany’s first female Chancellor, Mr Schr? and his Social Democrats (SPD) have narrowed the gap. A week before Germans go to the polls, Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrats (CDU) are becoming rattled as Chancellor Gerhard Schr? gains ground in the fight to retain a job he has often appeared to want to lose. His brother, 28-year-old Mutassim, is known as Hannibal and is not a footballer. But he is a player, the pair having long been known for their playboy lifestyle..

Biennale spokesman Paolo Luighi said “we know absolutely nothing” about the deal, but confirmed Mr Croff had attended.Saadi Gaddafi, 31, a professional footballer, is worth an estimated $4bn. He currently plays for Italian team Perugia, after being dropped from the Libyan national side when their manager described him as “useless”. Rapper 50 Cent entertained and 400 of La Serenissima’s finest were invited.The ostensible purpose was to promote the Gaddafi’s humanitarian project for children in Niger, but the pair are also reportedly schmoozing Davide Croff, president of the Venice Biennale, which organises all major arts events in the city. They want him to accept Libyan funding for the prestigious film festival.The brothers are keen to help fund Mr Croff’s plans to renovate the Venice Lido. The site is cramped and unable to cope with the influx of celebrities and media.

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