The chancellor’s need to win back far-factual voters is tough to square with her previous embrace of open bordersAngela Merkels New Year address on German television has acquired all the familiarity of the Queen’s Christmas speech. So much so that one newspaper ran a front page showing the chancellor’s 12 years in shiny-jacket attire under the headline,Can the Social Democrats put up with another one of these?”The needling of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), for preparing to support Merkel’s fourth term in office, and highlights a more irreverent tone towards Mutti”,as she restarts stalled talks to hammer out a new coalition.
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Source: theguardian.com