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Author: Henning Hoff

  • Merz Gets Off to a Zigzagging Start

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    Henning Hoff
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    “Grand” isn’t what it used to be. When Angela Merkel built her first “grand” coalition between her center-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) back in 2005, its parliamentary majority was 448 out of 614 seats. (In the first-ever postwar grand coalition, which ruled from 1966 to 1969, it was an overwhelming…