Friedrich Merz must be invested on Tuesday Chancellor of Germany. A challenge for the chief of the CDU who will have to govern a country weakened by the blows of Donald Trump and forced to reinvent himself under the threat of an extreme right in strong progression.
After the government agreement with the Social Democrats, the leader of the CDU Friedrich Merz must be invested Chancellor of Germany on Tuesday, May 6. Olaf Scholz’s probable successor will have a lot to do at the head of his country’s executive, put under pressure by Donald Trump on the international scene and under the threat of the extreme right in strong progression on the domestic scene.
Expected with hope in Europe, the winner without glory of the legislative elections at the end of February, who proclaims that “Germany is again on the rails”, faces enormous challenges. He has taken the reins of the first European economy at a time of geopolitical change, where Europe seeks to free itself from the military supervision of an American ally that has become unpredictable and where Germany has been in economic excess since 2018.
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