Merz One Year in Office: Populist and Establishment Forces All Bash the Chancellor Michael Curzon May 6, 2026 Even mainstream publications admit that the CDU’s top official is “stuck in the mud.”
A Weak German Chancellor and a Threat to Democracy Dieter Stein May 6, 2025 Friedrich Merz limps into office while Berlin moves to ban the main opposition party.
Merz Unexpectedly Fails To Secure Chancellorship in First Bundestag Vote TEC News May 6, 2025 In what is seen as unprecedented in post-war German history, Merz failed to secure the majority needed to form a government in the first vote in the German federal parliament.
