Merkel’s Quiet Revolution

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May.29 -- Germany is undergoing a quiet revolution. Angela Merkel is seizing her chance to revolutionize Europe’s largest economy. The coronavirus pandemic has revived a radical plan to transform Germany into a state capitalist with echoes of France and China. With infection rates surging and stringent restrictions on people and businesses, there is little time for debate and no serious opposition to a plan that one of Merkel’s chief advisors had drawn up a year beforehand. Bloomberg’s Birgit Jennen reports on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.”

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