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Today, if Henry Kissinger asked again which number to call to speak to Europe, he would certainly be given Angela Merkel's. The German Chancellor is the most powerful actor in the current euro crisis. But the undisputed importance of Germany is also its biggest problem: while the US and some EU...
It wasn't a happy new year for Germany's President Christian Wulff, who finds himself trapped in a scandal over loans he received on favourable terms for a house he bought when he was still Prime Minister in Lower Saxony.
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