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Raw Politics: Angela Merkel's "sh**storm" moment

Raw Politics: Angela Merkel's "sh**storm" moment
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German Chancellor Angela Markel caused a stir by using a swear word.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel caused laughter when speaking on stage at the government's Digital Summit after she used the word "sh**tstorm" to describe the reaction she received when she called digitisation a new territory last year.

Brian Maguire, a reporter at Euractiv, appearing on Euronews' Raw Politics programme, said Merkel was a lot freer to express herself at the moment.

Meanwhile, Euronews' political editor Darren McCaffrey noted the word is more widely-used in German.

You can watch the full clip from Raw Politics in the video player, above.

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