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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Deborah Cole, Berlin correspondent

Will Trump’s Middle East war also engulf Friedrich Merz?

A tight lipped Friedrich Merz visits Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday.
A tight lipped Friedrich Merz visits Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday.
Photograph: Samuel Corum/EPA

You could be forgiven for thinking Friedrich Merz would rather be anywhere but Germany of late.

But hopes that his stop in Washington this week would provide the chancellor even a brief respite from woes at home were dashed by Donald Trump’s risky Iran gamble.

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