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Merkel's ebbing power boosts Theresa May's EU leverage

Published Tue, Sep 6, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel's ebbing power further complicates the European Central Bank's (ECB) growth policies and strengthens Britain's negotiating leverage in the psychological and economic battle over the UK's European Union (EU) withdrawal.

The anti-immigration, anti-euro Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday forced Mrs Merkel's ruling centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) into third place in elections in the idyllic yet relatively impoverished eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Mrs Merkel's humiliation in her electoral home region, espe…

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