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Van Aken Accuses Merz of "Macho Tendencies"

Left Party leader Jan van Aken has warned Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) against "macho behavior." Merz has "a tendency toward macho behavior," and he reacts allergically to it, van Aken told the Funke Media Group podcast "My Hardest Decision" (Thursday editions). When Merz traveled to Kyiv immediately after taking office and threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with new sanctions, he thought: "You're acting so tough, you have nothing up…
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Left Party leader Jan van Aken has warned Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) against "macho behavior." Merz has "a tendency toward macho behavior," and he reacts allergically to it, van Aken told the Funke Media Group podcast "My Hardest Decision" (Thursday editions). When Merz traveled to Kyiv immediately after taking office and threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with new sanctions, he thought: "You're acting so tough, you have nothing up…

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