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Video. Europe's week: Black Lives Matter, Europe rises

Updated: 09/06/2020 - 16:09 GMT+2

This week saw Europeans take to the streets to honour the memory of George Floyd and call out systemic racism. At the political level, the German government has been shifting its economic focus.

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