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Ursula von der Leyen had been struggling for weeks to form a new team of European commissioners when she picked up the phone for a fateful conversation with Emmanuel Macron sometime last week. The French president had long since put…

BERLIN — New U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is looking for lessons on how to keep a center-left government in power. He won’t be taking any from Olaf Scholz, however. The new British PM flew into Berlin Tuesday night still…