The Merz coalition scraped together a majority of 318 Bundestag MPs in favour of the contested pensions Bill. Photograph: John MacDougall/ AFP via Getty Images
German chancellor Friedrich Merz saw off a parliamentary rebellion on Friday and narrowly held his coalition together in a controversial pensions vote, after two months of bad-tempered debate.
Younger MPs within Merz’s own centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) had threatened to torpedo what they called an unafforda
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