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    A transformation in Germany

    Dec 10, 2021 3 minutes

    What’s happened?

    ermany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz of the centre-left Social Democrats, was sworn in on Wednesday, heading the first three-way coalition since the 1950s. Scholz’s partners in the coalition are the Free Democrats, a free-market liberal party that for decades has been the go-to coalition partner for the centre-right CDU; and the Greens, who were previously part of an SPD-led coalition under Gerhard Schröder from 1998-2005. The departure of Angela Merkel after 16 years is a moment of change, but also continuity. The SPD has been part of Merkel’s coalition for 12 of her

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