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Andreas Glas and Johann Osel
He gets out of a black limousine, the Croatian Prime Minister stretches out his hand, Markus Söder grabs. That’s what he wanted, playing on an equal footing with the heads of state. That’s how he imagined it in 2021, when he wanted to become Chancellor. But now, at the end of 2022? The Bavarian prime minister shakes the hand of the Croatian prime minister – and speaks like someone who wants to tear the republic he would have loved to rule in half.