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Welcome. Welcome to the Restless Politics Leading with me Rory Stewart.

And me, Alice Campbell.

We're about to interview somebody that we've been desperate to get on.

And congratulations finding getting on, Angela Merkel, who basically is the dominating figure in European

politics, I guess, over the last 30 years.

She is right at the heart of so many things.

She's at the heart of this transition from the optimism of the 1990s into our current

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