Firewall compromised: has Friedrich Merz blown ‘democracy’s last shot’?

- Friedrich Merz: 2 events in the last 90 days
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What happened
Many fear chancellor is wrong man for the job at a time when Germany’s defences against far right are crumbling A cataclysm. A 9.0 earthquake. A five-alarm fire. A bitter rejection of Germany ’s joyous reunification three decades ago, and a threat to the democratic postwar order. Sizing up the repercussions of last weekend’s win for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party in the former communist state of Sax…
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