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Constitutional conundrums, Covid costs

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Jörg Luyken
Jul 09, 2025
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Dear Reader,

Friday is the last day of debating in the Bundestag before the summer break. And it will provide an interesting example of whether the new government under Friedrich Merz will be any more stable than the gaggle that Olaf Scholz tried to keep in order.

On the one hand - thanks to Merz's debt tricks passed before the new Bundestag formed - the …

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