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Also At least 30 people were injured, some seriously, when a car was driven into a crowd in Munich, 10 days before Germans vote in federal elections. Dive deeper with our features from Europe and beyond. He voices anxiety about Germany’s flatlining economy as well as immigration, comparing the far-right riots in England this summer to “civil war-like conditions”. General Carsten German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised an investigation after a car drove into crowds at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg, killing at least five Germany has long been cautious about defence spending, not just for historical reasons dating back to 1945, but also due to the global debt crisis of 2009. Germany's president has called for "reason and responsibility" to prevail, but this was a coalition collapse that was months in the making. BBC News provides trusted World, U. Now 10, he and his mother welcome me into their home. news as well as local and regional perspectives. 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