Angela Merkel’s swan song in Washington Adam Taylor
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Angela Merkel is no stranger to Washington. The German chancellor, in power since 2005, has already visited the White House during three administrations. But things will be different when she greets President Biden on Thursday. With her impending retirement, this will probably be the swan song of the 16-year Merkel era in U.S.-German relations.
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A green wind of change is blowing through Germany’s political landscape as a poll-of-polls on Monday puts the Green party above Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) only five months before national elections.
The aggregate poll, published by Pollytix Strategic Research, puts the Greens in the lead for the first time since June 2019.
Germany’s party landscape has long proven more resistant to sudden upheavals than its European neighbours, with the CDU holding on to its status as the country’s supreme political power while sister parties in France or Italy slipped into oblivion.
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