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You put your left side in: Germany’s shake-about

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The Germans Are Nervous About the Imminent Departure of Merkel

Covid is raging again in germany. Thousands of people dying ha week, with breaking records every day for the numbers of new infections. This is going to confront onaf scholtz and his government on day one,. There is a long running, outstanding question on nord stream too - an extremely controversial gas pipe line that runs from russia to germany That issue has not been settled. And there's also the question of inflation. Germans hate inflation, and it's running very, very high. There are predictions for a six % inflation rate in december. As soon as he enters, after 16 years, missus murgld departs. She remains really

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