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Politico (6 April 2026)

John KAMPFNER

If the Social Democracts don’t want to disappear into the fringes, they have to decide, once and for all, what they stand for and who they represent.

“It is up to us to determine whether Germany will remain a strong country. No one else gets to decide. Not the White House, not the Great Hall of the People — and certainly not the Kremlin. We decide,” declared Lars Klingbeil, Germany’s vice chancellor, minister of finance and co-leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

But has the floundering man with three jobs finally found his courage?

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