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Merkel's likely heir favors her centrist path for Germany

by Kirsten Grieshaber
| July 2, 2021 12:09 AM

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — As a child of the Cold War in West Germany, Armin Laschet remembers when then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan came to Berlin in 1987, stood at the barrier separating East from West, and said, “Tear down this wall!”

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