
How Much Will Merz Compromise with SPD To Form Coalition?
Merz’s campaign centered around tough migration laws, industrial revival, and sensible climate strategies. Now all of this could be sacrificed to join the SPD.
Merz’s campaign centered around tough migration laws, industrial revival, and sensible climate strategies. Now all of this could be sacrificed to join the SPD.
Whoever the projected winner Friedrich Merz forms a coalition with, Germans will lose.
Despite the opposition’s efforts and the artificially fueled protests, the support for the largest parties has hardly changed since the election.
Despite narratives from international media and the opposition, polls show the public is not unhappy with PM Fico’s sovereigntist government.
Consolidated federal finances and tighter immigration policies take priority over Flemish self-government for the ideologically diverse coalition.
The stakes are clear: political stability and economic progress or a return to the endless cycle of elections.
The centre-right is paying the price for shunning the right-wing FPÖ, as coalition talks stall over budget and tax disagreements.
Despite divisions, all pro-EU parties have united in government and behind a single presidential candidate to keep the ‘far right’ at bay.
Since a parliamentary majority would require all three rival mainstream parties, coalition talks will be tougher than ever.
The previous coalition government is likely to return to power.