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Inside Europe - A shake up in German politics

Daniel Pelz
January 27, 2017

German politics has had a bit of a shake up, particularly among the Social Democratic Party, the SPD. The chairman of the party, Sigmar Gabriel, announced he was stepping aside from the party leadership to allow Martin Schulz, a veteran European politician, to fight the elections as a Chancellor candidate against Angela Merkel. Berlin correspondent Daniel Pelz has more.

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