On Thursday’s White House meeting Betti Chancellor Frederick Merz and President Donald Trump were highly anticipated and top news in Germany. Merz was expected to find a good synergy with the US President under half of the eligible German voters participating in the Monthly German Trend Survey. A similar number has been said that Mars did not have enough diplomatic skills to deal with the Firing Policy Challenge of its new role.
These are the results of the latest germany trend, a representative survey of 1,292 eligible German voters held for public broadcasting networks Ard In early June by Pollsters Infratest DIMAP.
Which country rely on?
Germany has close ties with the United States and therefore with Israel. However, reactions see the relationship as far away. France and Ukraine are currently more reliable partners as lakes.
Vishal majority – 84% – One of those surveys thought that Russia could not be trusted, and 73% said similar to America. Israel is not reliable by a clear majority. Only 16% of the reactions still consider Israel a partner that Germany may rely on a decline of 11% compared to October 2024.
Important criticism of Israel
What is clear in the survey survey of Israel’s military reaction to the attack by militant group Hamas in October 2023. According to 63% response, the Israeli course of action in Gaza has gone far away, while 18% thought it was appropriated.
77% of the reactions thought that it was true that Chancellor Frederick Merz criticized Israel for his current military conduct in Gaza. Only one in eight thought that Germany should support Israel unconditionally in the Gaza struggle. 55% of the reactions do not agree that Germany has more responsibility for protecting Israel Baikas of its history.
Nearly many people blame Israel for the situation faced by Palestinian citizens in Gaza. Accordingly, most of the respondents supported the reconsideration of German military assistance: 43% supported the banning of arms exports to Israel, and another 30% wanted a complete break.
Frederick Merz receives favor, but a view of government vigilance
Christian Democrats, Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU )’s new government of Germany and Center-Loft Social Democrats (SPD) of Center-Left Social Democrats (SPD) is bent in May. Former SPD’s tripartite alliance, environmentalists Greens and Niolibral Free Democrats (FDP) had a high approval rating in early 2022, when it reached 46%when it reached 46%.
On the other hand, Frederick Merz of CDU has gained considerable popularity since assuming office as the Chancellor of Germany. Among the people in the survey, 39% were satisfied with their work, 14% since April. SPD Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingable, hence 39% approval rating. The only high-profile German politicians who are satisfied with most of the citizens of Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD).
The expectations of the people of the new government’s policies are no different from the SNAP federal election held in February.
Half of them rely on new leadership to strengthen the German economy conducted. The same number is expected to represent better German interests in the world. The suspicion of government’s ability to increase domestic security and effectively manage migration has increased slightly.
CDU/CSU expands its lead on AFD
If there were new electoral heroes this week, CDU/CSU Wold, with 29%, has a slightly better result than them in the previous voting. The SPD, which is in the alliance with the union, will be slightly below with 15% vote (-1).
The distant option for Germany (AFD) will unchanged with 23% of the vote (20.8% in the general election). Greens and Socialist Left Party will now win 12% and 9% respectively. All other parties will not meet the 5% threshold required to enter the Bundestag Parliament, including the Sahara Wagoncate Alliance (BSW) and FDP, which both remain at 4%.
This article was original in German.
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