Germany’s Second-Most Powerful Woman Takes on Merkel

Germany’s second-most powerful woman is picking a fight with Angela Merkel.

Hannelore Kraft, the Social Democratic prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, says that Merkel’s federal government isn’t taking tax evasion seriously. Her state, which has more people than the Netherlands, is at “the vanguard of combating tax dodgers” and won’t back down, Kraft said.