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10/31/2018: Germany’s future without Merkel | One Sri Lanka, two prime ministers?

1,112 views · Published 1 November 2018 · 27:52 · Indexed 1 October 2026

Channel: CGTN · 2018 · News & Politics

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced she will step down in 2021. How will Europe, and Germany, cope without her?

Sri Lanka’s president Maithripala Sirisena sacked the country’s Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe on October 26, and said he would replace him with the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. Wickremesinghe called the decision to dismiss him “unconstitutional” and refused to step down. How did it all begin, and what's at stake for Sri Lanka? 

GUESTS:

Florian Hartleb, research associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
Cui Hongjian, senior research fellow and director of the Department for European Studies at the China Institute of International Studies
Atul Aneja, associate editor of The Hindu
Xu Qinduo, senior fellow at Pangoal Institution

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