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Olaf Scholz calls time on Germany’s traffic light coalition

7 November 2024

8:13 AM

7 November 2024

8:13 AM

Just as Germany, along with the rest of Europe, begins to process what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean, more instability is heading its way – this time domestic. This evening, German chancellor Olaf Scholz fired the finance minister and FDP leader Christian Lindner, kicking the FDP party out of government and bringing Berlin’s traffic light coalition crashing down.

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