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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel argued President-elect Trump does not believe in “any win-win situation,” and it makes ...

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The former leader criticised Israeli prime minister in her new book, while sharing her regret over how she treated a teenage ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Former chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Germany to relax its “debt brake”, in a sign of the ...