As the floods which have devastated homes and caused over 150 deaths recede in the Rhineland, three types of political implications have already emerged.
People are talking about climate change – for the first time during the campaign. Armin Laschet, Merkel’s successor, failed to rise to the occasion when he was caught laughing as the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier addressed grieving families in the Rhineland.
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