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Why the once-durable Merkel may not last much longer | Anne McElvoy

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The chancellor’s need to win back far-right voters is hard to square with her previous embrace of open borders

Angela Merkel’s 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, highlights a more irreverent tone towards “Mutti”, as she restarts stalled talks to hammer out a new coalition.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2CqsOtm

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