
Friedrich Merz: The Unfulfilled Promise of German Conservatism
What Germans learnt the hard way about their newly elected chancellor will most likely determine his rule: yes to conservative votes, no to delivering on their priorities.

What Germans learnt the hard way about their newly elected chancellor will most likely determine his rule: yes to conservative votes, no to delivering on their priorities.

Being the first German chancellor in history who needed two rounds to be confirmed already casts doubts on the long-term viability of his government.
Only 32% think the CDU leader would make a good fit.

The patriotic Right’s co-leader declared that the “prosperous country that our grandparents and parents had built up” no longer exists.

Defence secretary Boris Pistorius will not challenge Olaf Scholz for the social democrats’ candidacy for chancellor.

FPÖ Lawyer Susanne Fürst emerging as potential consensus candidate for chancellorship

Scholz, despite warning that Germany is preparing for another round of sanctions, left the door for future economic cooperation with Russia open once the war is brought to an end.