Germany’s largest circulation tabloid, PictureChancellor has passed a decision on Frederick Mars: “The solitary Chancellor explains his biggest mistake,” this week has written. They were referring to their latest surprising decisions, Tostop authorized the delivery of further weapons to Israel, which could be used in the war in the Gaza Strip.
Merz took this decision without prior debate at her own center-center-Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and, according to PictureIts Bavarian Sister Party, The Christian Social Union (CSU), what not.
It was the latest in a series of turns and surprise decisions that Marz has done since coming to the office.
His Chancellorship closed for a bungalow start: when, after the February 23 general election, the new Bundestag called a new head of the government to choose a new head, supervisors had high expectations for stability.
Social Democrats (SPD), environmentalist Greens and Niolibral Free Democrats (FDP) had collapsed the Ephr for only three years by the previous Central-Vam Sarkar, which was constantly associated with infection, mainly on budgetary issues. The distant option for Germany (AFD) doubled its share of the vote. In early August, a survey by Pollster Fool, AFD was placed at 26% compared to 24% ahead of CDU/CSU.
However, on 6 May, Frederick Merz failed to achieve the required number of votes to become Chancellor. He had a shortage of six votes from his camp, and managed to secure the required majority in only an unprecedented second vote.
Billions of new government loans
The new government started with a blast before assuming office: together with Greens, now in protest, it organized a two-thirds majority in Bundestag to raise strict German rules around the state borrowing, to protect the so-called loan brakes, despite the promises of the highwing election, which is included in the Constitution.
The new government will have a huge additional € 500 billion ($ 583 billion) – but in principle, unlimited – to upgrade its armed forces and at least 500 billion for renewal of roads, railway tracks and schools and 500 billion for climatic security initiatives.
SPD’s new Finance Minister Lars Clingbeil said: “OECD, International Monetary Fund, European Commission or G7 – In recent years, all have encouraged and advised to invest Germany more and make their flexible. It was not possible that it was until now in Parliament, even in Parliament, even strongly investing in our country’s future,”
Another election promise was broken in June. Electricity prices were expected to be widely reduced to all. Again, the government announced a decrease in power tax only for industrial, agriculture and forestry sectors, arguing that there was no budget for the cost of comprehensive power.
Focus on foreign policy
Since assuming office, in 100 days, Merz was mainly occupied with foreign policy. Shortly after the voting, he traveled to a high-profile visit to Kiev with French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Kir Strann to assure Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelanski of European solidarity.
In early June, he met US President Donald Trump at the White House and, unlike some other visitors, behaved well.
The merge looked comfortably at the European Union and NATO summit.
Merz has noticed that her Firingister, Johann Wadeful, often fade in the background. Sometimes, the unmarried choice of the words of Chancellor has expressed displeasure, discovered after Israel’s June 13 attack on Iran: “This is the dirty work that Israel is doing for all of us. For the world.
Difficult remedies on immigration
In domestic cases, the issue of curbing irregular immigration has been important. The new internal minister Alexander Dobridate (CSU) quickly went to tighten the control over the Germany border. It includes asylum seekers, who violate the law of the European Union.
Germany’s eastern neighboring Poland responded to Dobrid’s measures, causing control of long traffic jams on both sides of the border. Dobrindt repeatedly defended its decisions: “European Union is a metropolitan region. We remain a metropolitan area. But it does not want illegal smugglers, smugglers and criminal gangs to decide to decide who comes in our region. Methods of coming to Europe;
Cracks in coalition
The last session of the Bundestag ended with a blast before its summer break. Three new judges were confirmed on the agenda in the Federal Constitutional Court. In the past, the coalition partners always managed to fill the search import roles to present a cordial and smooth discovery to present the reputation of the Supreme German court.
But this time not: Dozens of conservative MPs refused to vote in the candidate put forward by the SPD, Frauk Brasius-Zarsdorf, which was approved for enrollment by a bipartisan committee. Pushbacks against his appointment have been pushed, his generous views on abortion on right -wing social media channels have been incorrectly introduced. On the day of the vote, the candidate was charged with suspected literary theft and the votes were canceled.
SPD spoke of a serious violation of faith. Although the party continued her back, Brasius-Garsdorf later withdrew its candidature. The issue of judges’ appointments will continue beyond summer leave and represents the first major crisis within the alliance, casting a shadow on the government’s record after in the office.
This article was original in German.
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