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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Jan. 23 that openness, not populism, polarization or isolation, was the answer to the world’s challenges of globalization and digitalization.

“I think that, a quarter of a century after German unification, after the end of the Cold War, a new historical era will perhaps be replaced by another one,” Merkel said in a speech to church leaders in Wuerzburg.

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