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Gregoire Lory

New German Chancellor Merz aims for stronger EU ties with France and Poland

As he travelled to Paris and Warsaw on Wednesday for his first official foreign trip, the new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz did not arrive in the favourable position he had hoped for.

The CDU party leader wanted to send a strong message to his partners. However, it took him two rounds of voting on Tuesday to be confirmed as head of government, a first in German political history since World War II.

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