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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the attack "horrifying" while Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, accused Russia of committing a war crime.

Germany's conservatives under Friedrich Merz have reached a deal with the Social Democrats to govern Europe's biggest economy, five months after the previous government collapsed.

Or, for that matter, Karl Marx’s utopian communism or Friedrich Hayek’s perfectly self-equilibrating free market?

But Germany is still waiting for chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to form a government, so it was up to acting chancellor Olaf Scholz to point out that the "world's strongest internal market with 450 million consumers" gave Europe strength.

The historic move was made by Scholz's expected successor, Friedrich Merz, in a rush that raised some eyebrows.