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Germany’s increasingly shaky political future

ON SEPT. 26, GERmany’s year of political change will culminate with the election of a new Chancellor, an event that will close the remarkable 16-year tenure of Angela Merkel. For Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the election year is off to a rough start.

Early March saw the first two of six regional

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