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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Friedrich Merz era got off to a shaky start. After years of infighting and drift in Berlin, the chancellor’s arrival was supposed to be a new beginning for Germany and for Europe, both yearning … Read more