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ANG-ING BY A THREAD Angela Merkel’s government on brink of COLLAPSE over Germany’s migrant crisis as coalition minister threatens to quit
ByMichael Armstrong July 2, 2018

Horst Seehofer revealed he is set to quit his crucial cabinet post and key role as leader of her coalition partners because he believes the Chancellor is soft on immigration. ANGELA Merkel is holding crisis talks today to try and save her political future after her interior minister said he was ready to quit over…

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U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell wants to ’empower’ Europe’s right
ByMichael Armstrong June 4, 2018June 5, 2018

In an interview with ultra-conservative U.S. news website Breitbart, President Trump’s ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, heavily criticized Berlin’s defense spending, saying Germany is losing credibility. The U.S. envoy in Berlin also tasked himself with “empowering” the European right. Grenell had already riled officials in the Bundestag (German parliament), despite only formally assuming the ambassadorship last month, by urging German companies doing in business…

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