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Updated: 27/03/2024 - 14:42

Video. Robert Habeck: 'We have to be more pragmatic and less bureaucratic'

The Vice-Chancellor of Germany, Robert Habeck, discusses the upcoming European elections, economic decline, gaps in the job market and higher defence spending on the Global Conversation.

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