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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, aka AKK (right), at the European People's Party political assembly in Brussels, March 2019 (Photo: EPP)

Don't believe the AKK hype - Merkel will last to 2021

It is true that where Emmanuel Macron sets a broad, ambitious vision for a 'European renaissance', Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (AKK)'s reply was more typically German: no to "European centralism" and no support to strengthen the EU's social dimension.

Both leaders converge, however, on their emphasis on a classical inter-governmental approach and on conservative issues like in...

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Olaf Boehnke is the senior advisor in Berlin to the Rasmussen Global political consultancy.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, aka AKK (right), at the European People's Party political assembly in Brussels, March 2019 (Photo: EPP)

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Olaf Boehnke is the senior advisor in Berlin to the Rasmussen Global political consultancy.

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