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The economist. Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm Jason Palmer.
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And I'm Rosie Blore.
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Today on the show, why your chatbot is suddenly selling to you and how the rhetoric of war has changed for the worse. And little content warning here for the swearier. But first, Friedrich Merz has something of an unpredictable streak in him. Off color remarks, flashes of anger, notably against Angela Merkel, who chucked him out of the upper ranks of their Christian Democratic Union. But he found his way back and one year ago today he took office as the oldest new chancellor in 75 years, leading a centrist coalition with the Social Democrats. As expected, he made bold early moves, shuffling ministries around and creating new ones, shoring up defense ties with France and diplomatic ones with Poland. But you might say it's all been downhill from there because it's the problems at home that were always going to test him well, and his knack for getting on the nerves of the powerful.
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This government took office one year ago with a mandate to lift the spirits of a country that had been in the economic doldrums for years.
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Tom Nottle is our chief Germany correspondent.
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