The chemistry which used to bind Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Mitterrand is simply not there with Gerhard Schroder and Jacques Chirac.

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Angela Merkel, 52, won last fall's elections for the chancellorship of Europe's largest economy, surprising the incumbent, Gerhard Schroder, and even members of her own Christian Democratic Union.

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Because while it is true that Gerhard Schroder, the undercredited architect of the German model, was a Third Way liberal, he was not working from the same playbook as his Atlanticist counterparts.

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