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Hundreds of people have died unnecessarily in Germany. The chancellor fought hard to prevent this. Yet many now say: Merkel has lost control

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Why Germans understand the EU best

In Germany, there is commotion about a new book, Ausbruch: Innenansichten einer Pandemie [Outbreak: Insights from Inside a Pandemic], in which two journalists describe meetings held during the corona crisis between federal chancellor Angela Merkel, and the 16 prime ministers of its federal constituent states.

Those meetings are frequent and held behind closed doors.

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Caroline de Gruyter is a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. This column is an edited version of a column in NRC.

Hundreds of people have died unnecessarily in Germany. The chancellor fought hard to prevent this. Yet many now say: Merkel has lost control

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Caroline de Gruyter is a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. This column is an edited version of a column in NRC.

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