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'Deeply Shocked': Merz Speaks Of 'Consequences' After Historic CDU Defeat
'Deeply Shocked': Merz Speaks Of 'Consequences' After Historic CDU Defeat
via Remix News,
Germany's political establishment is still absorbing the shock of Sunday's state election in Saxony-Anhalt, where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to 43.8 percent and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Friedrich Merz crashed to 17.2 percent.
Merz called the result the CDU's "heaviest defeat" in decades and said it could not simply be treated as business as usual.
"And I have to admit, this is the heaviest electoral defeat that the CDU has suffered in years, in decades,"...
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Some candidates kiss babies two weeks before an election. Brad Lander picked olives in the West Bank.
Lander, the former New York City comptroller and the Democratic nominee in deep-blue NY-10, posted this at 6:29am ET on Wednesday:
I've been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis & volunteers. We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nehalim in the West Bank.
The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives...
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Companies Report Raging Inflation, Except In Wages & Rents
Companies Report Raging Inflation, Except In Wages & Rents
Authored by Wolf Richter via Wolf Street,
Manufacturers reported that the costs of health insurance for employees shot up by 14.2% on average; service firms reported an average increase of 12.9%, according to a report by the New York Fed based on a survey of companies in the New York-Northern New Jersey region.
These are averages, but “some firms reported increases of between 25% and 50% when they renewed their coverage,” the report said.
Manufacturers and service firms both reported that the costs...
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