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Aug 12, 2025
Germans take their holidays seriously. And as is now tradition, before politicians clear out of Berlin for the month of August, an annual survey by Bild, Germany’s biggest...
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Jun 9, 2025
While Merz’s approach has already paid dividends in terms of mood music in the German establishment, in concrete terms, it hasn’t.
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May 6, 2025
Pessimism is the German national sport, but the new chancellor will be determined to prove his compatriots wrong.
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Feb 27, 2025
Merz has four to five years not just to breathe new life into his party, but to ensure the country’s traditional political constellation isn’t broken for good.
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Feb 13, 2025
This is a tale of two cities, two streets and an unlikely divergence that speaks volumes about the state of politics in Europe today.
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Feb 8, 2025
Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may well have been sounded.
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Jan 30, 2025
Did Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, fall into a trap? Or is he forcing other mainstream parties to confront what many regard as the new reality — a harder, less...
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Jan 27, 2025
The country’s perennial yearning for reassurance is still dominating discourse — but this time around, it’s likely to be in vain.
