Keeping It Up? Where Friedrich Merz Will Take Germany’s Foreign Policy

... Germany” back in the early 2000s. Friedrich Merz is not just uncommitted to political continuity—he was elected to lead the CDU precisely to overhaul first the party itself and then Germany as a whole. For some, the “right turn” he promised has never ... ... the sense of a “wind of change,” at least in the ranks of the Christian Democrats, is hard to deny. As in last year’s elections to the European Parliament and the legislatures of three eastern federal states, foreign policy loomed large in the ...