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FILE -Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during a reception of the North Rhine-Westphalian Christian Democratic Union, CDU, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Jan. 18, 2025, ahead of the federal elections in February. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

FILE -Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during a reception of the North Rhine-Westphalian Christian Democratic Union, CDU, in Duesseldorf, Germany, Jan. 18, 2025, ahead of the federal elections in February. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

German opposition leader and Christian Union parties floor leader Friedrich Merz speaks at a debate about migration at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German opposition leader and Christian Union parties floor leader Friedrich Merz speaks at a debate about migration at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Members of parliament from the Green partiy turn their backs to the speaker during a speech by Berlin AfD MP Martin Trefzer, member of the Berlin House of Representatives, during the 60th plenary session of the Berlin House of Representatives, in Berlin, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2024. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa via AP)

Members of parliament from the Green partiy turn their backs to the speaker during a speech by Berlin AfD MP Martin Trefzer, member of the Berlin House of Representatives, during the 60th plenary session of the Berlin House of Representatives, in Berlin, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2024. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa via AP)

Members of parliament from the SPD, Green and Left parties turn their backs to the speaker during a speech by Martin Trefzer (AfD), member of the Berlin House of Representatives, during the 60th plenary session of the Berlin House of Representatives, in Berlin, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2024. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa via AP)

Members of parliament from the SPD, Green and Left parties turn their backs to the speaker during a speech by Martin Trefzer (AfD), member of the Berlin House of Representatives, during the 60th plenary session of the Berlin House of Representatives, in Berlin, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2024. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa via AP)