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Germany’s conservative opposition has sharply criticized Chancellor Olaf Scholz for his comments in a major interview on Sunday about pushing harder for a negotiated end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Roderich Kiesewetter, a foreign policy spokesman for the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), said Scholz is falling for Russian propaganda and is continuing to cling to old self-serving German delusions about Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said Scholz’s shift has made a “farce” that marks the death of his prominent declaration that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2…

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