Germany’s Likely Leader Flirts With a Taboo: Working With the Far Right

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  Yahoo News - Jan. 6
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  Austria’s new centre-right leader open to coalition with far right

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  Financial Times - Jan. 5
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  Vance shares Musk op-ed backing Germany's far-right party

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