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Germany’s Gathering Storm

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 The ground is shaking beneath Chancellor Angela Merkel, with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland now in the Bundestag and the Social Democrats determined not to join a new grand coalition. Merkel now faces the thorny task of forming a government with the Greens and the Free Democrats as she starts to address the problems of a domestic economy grown complacent, and a Europe desperate for renewal.

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    A Test for Europe’s German Anchor

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    Germany’s Economic Road Ahead

    Sep 25, 2017 Clemens Fuest highlights five major policy challenges that the new government will face in the coming years.

  5. How to Renew the European Project
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    How to Renew the European Project

    Sep 1, 2017 Christoph M. Schmidt outlines the pitfalls France and Germany should avoid as they step up their cooperative efforts.

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