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Europe’s Sleepwalk Years: How Merkel’s Calm Stalled a Continent

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Europe’s Sleepwalk Years: How Merkel’s Calm Stalled a Continent

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Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 10 months ago

Angela Merkel’s calm steadied a wounded nation — but it also put it to sleep. For sixteen years, Germany mistook caution for competence and comfort for courage. This essay dissects how the myth of …

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Merkel must have known about CumEx. It’s just not associated with her.

If everybody but the king is corrupt then questions should be asked.

Still, I would prefer Merkel over most politicians to become the next chancellor again.
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  Right. Wikipedia says the Bundesfinanzministerium was aware of CumEx trade since 2002…

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