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Politico (18 December 2020)

By Matthew Karnitschnig

It shall be remembered as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s final Christmas miracle.

As Europe’s mood darkened amid a worsening pandemic and stricter lockdowns this month, the German leader cajoled Hungary and Poland into accepting a compromise on rule-of-law sanctions, clearing a blockade on the EU’s emergency coronavirus aid that had threatened the Continent with a winter of switches and ashes.

Yet as is true of most yuletide tales, the real story is a bit more complicated.

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