Germany’s most powerful political party has a new leader. The Christian Democratic Union has elected Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Angela Merkel, who spent 18 years as its leader. The World’s Marco Werman interviews Constanze Stelzenmüller, who closely follows German politics at the Brookings Institution.
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