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BERLIN — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is finding out the hard way that there’s a lot more to leading Germany than being an Angela Merkel tribute act.
Scholz meets Joe Biden at the White House on Monday as part of a U.S. trip intended to repair the battering that Berlin’s reputation has taken on both sides of the Atlantic over the Ukraine crisis.
The 63-year-old former finance minister won Germany’s general election last fall by portraying himself as the natural successor to Merkel, stressing continuity with her steady-as-she-goes approach to politics at home and abroad and even adopting her trademark pensive
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