Merkel ditches stricter Easter lockdown after business backlash in Germany
Poll shows public support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives slumping to its lowest in more than a year ahead of a national election in September
24 March 2021 - 17:28
Berlin — Chancellor Angela Merkel reversed a plan agreed on Tuesday for a stricter extended Easter holiday to try to break a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, apologising to lockdown-weary Germans after the hastily conceived plan triggered a backlash.
At talks that ran into the early hours of Tuesday, Merkel and the leaders of Germany's 16 states had agreed to call on citizens to stay at home for five days over the Easter holidays, declaring April 1 and April 3 as extra “rest days”...
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