Europe

Has Obama Passed the ‘Leader of the Free World’ Baton to Merkel?

Funereal in Berlin

The German chancellor will run again for re-election in a country disillusioned by recent history and confused by the Trump election in America.

Josephine Huetlin
Josephine Huetlin
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Josephine Huetlin

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