BERLIN — Even before Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chosen successor announced this week that she would step aside, sending German politics into deeper disarray, there were complaints about German leadership in Europe.
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(FILES) This file photo taken on Feb. 26, 2018 shows then Saarland's State Premier and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (R) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel standing on the stage after Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected new secretary general of the party during the CDU's party congress in Berlin.
