
Merz Betrayal Spurs Party Exodus
More and more members of the centre-right CDU have had enough of the prospective next chancellor and his broken promises.
More and more members of the centre-right CDU have had enough of the prospective next chancellor and his broken promises.
The negotiating parties have praised each other in public but behind the scenes it is all chaos
The idea of getting rid of the ruling elites’ most significant political opponent has been discussed for many years, and now the Greens put it back on the agenda.
Centre-right leaders join the incoming chancellor in blaming Washington and Moscow for Germany’s massive future borrowing.
The German centre-right and the left-wing parties bypassed the newly elected parliament to vote for Friedrich Merz’s spending spree.
The SPD’s radical migration agenda puts pressure on the CDU to compromise, despite growing public concern over crime and integration failures.
His wavering stance on migration and fiscal policy has weakened support even among his party’s own voters
CDU’s Friedrich Merz was closing the borders before he was not, and now his preliminary coalition agreement with the social democrats seems to be mostly hot air.
The right-wing party is taking legal action to stop the outgoing Bundestag from approving a massive new debt plan before the newly elected parliament convenes.
As Europe pins its hopes on Merz for stability, his shaky domestic alliances could turn his chancellorship into a political minefield.