To secure a fourth term as chancellor, Angela Merkel is handing her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners control of the Finance Ministry, giving them licence to spend a record budget surplus, and embracing their demands for European reform.
Merkel’s conservatives and Germany’s main centre-left
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