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    'Germany Is Becoming More Normal'

    Berlin suddenly looks unstable—just like a lot of other places.
    by Yasmeen Serhan Nov 20, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Axel Schmidt / Reuters

    Angela Merkel is traditionally known as Germany’s “safe pair of hands,” but when government-coalition talks unexpectedly collapsed late Sunday night after just four weeks, her future as the country’s chancellor was suddenly in question.

    It began just before midnight local time, when the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) party that it would no longer take part in coalition talks to form Germany’s next government. Though Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and its Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) sister party of votes during the country’s general election in September, they failed to win enough seats to govern

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