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A short story on political leadership, steadfast principles and longer term thinking.

About a year ago, Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz and German interior minister Horst Seehofer called for an "axis of the willing" to fight immigration alongside Italy's Matteo Salvini.
On that very same day, German chancellor Angela Merkel hosted her 10th Integration Summit in Berlin. Seehofer snubbed the meeting to stand next to Kurz.
Fast forward 12 months. Kurz's coalition with the far-right has collapsed in scandal. Seehofer quit as CSU leader after pandering to the far-right led to CSU's worst election in 60 years. Despite all the huffing & puffing, Salvini's strongest ally in Europe remains Marine Le Pen.
Merkel, meanwhile, after 14 years in office is still Germany's most popular politician.
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