13 May 2024

Germany correspondent Thomas Sparrow

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 13 May 2024
An election poster showing Germany's Social Democratic Party SPD's lead candidate Matthias Ecke (left) for the upcoming European Parliament elections, attached to a lamp post in Dresden, Germany on 4 May, 2024.

An election poster showing Germany's Social Democratic Party SPD's lead candidate Matthias Ecke (left) for the upcoming European Parliament elections, attached to a lamp post in Dresden, Germany on 4 May, 2024. Photo: AFP/ Jens Schlueter

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