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Germany’s Next Election Campaign Is Already Getting Started
Germany’s next election isn’t due until 2025 but campaigning is already up and running and Robert Habeck has seized the early initiative. The Greens’ economy minister fired his opening salvo late last month with a call for loosening budget restrictions — a direct attack on his regular sparring partner, the fiscally hawkish Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the Free Democrats. He followed that up this week with a foray into foreign policy, an issue that would typically be the reserve of Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz or Habeck’s Greens party rival, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. A video of ... (full story)