MORNING BULLETIN: FG rejects middle-class budget bias claim; Angela Merkel wins fourth term

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IRELAND: Junior finance minister Patrick O’Donovan has rejected claims that Fine Gael’s budget plans are too focussed on middle-class voters key to the party’s future election success.

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