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Germany’s Merz Wants Deal With Trump, Calls Scholz Lame Duck
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who’s dominating polls ahead of an expected snap election, said he would look to ink deals with incoming US President Donald Trump to boost his country’s international standing. In an interview with Stern magazine, Merz called Chancellor Olaf Scholz a “lame duck” and urged him to accelerate the timetable for an early federal election following the collapse of the three-party coalition government last week. Scholz, a Social Democrat, lost his majority in the German parliament on Wednesday after he sacked Finance Minister Christian Lindner, leader of the ... (full story)