German Vote Boosts Europe’s Centrists

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

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A.M. Edition for Feb. 24. Markets signal relief after conservative Friedrich Merz’s victory. WSJ Berlin bureau chief Bertrand Benoit says Merz wants Europe to be more independent from the U.S. Plus, federal agencies push back on Elon Musk’s “What did you do last week?” email. And a bundle of Disney+, Hulu and Max seems to have a stronger hold on viewers than Netflix. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.3	Federal workers get a new ultimatum from Elon Musk.
0:37.8	Plus, Ukraine's allies try to convince President Trump to offer Kiev an American security guarantee
0:43.9	as the war enters its fourth year.
0:47.2	And German elections deliver a win for the center right,
0:51.2	alongside a historically strong showing by anti-establishment nationalists.
0:56.2	The meta picture here is that the whole country is lodged to the right, in a way, much like
1:01.6	the whole of Europe has.
1:03.0	It's Monday, February 24th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the
1:08.2	AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories
1:12.3	moving your world today.
1:16.9	U.S. federal government employees are beginning the week with a weighty message in their
1:21.2	inboxes, reply by the end of the day with details about what you got done at work last week. We report that email
1:29.3	came together in a matter of hours on Saturday after President Trump directed Elon Musk to
1:34.5	get more aggressive in his government cost-cutting efforts, and by that evening, the message had
1:39.6	been sent to more than 2 million federal workers, with Musk adding on social media that, quote,
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