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

... the traffic light coalition. Polina Chupriyanova: The EU Steps Up the Fight Against Sanctions Evasion Now the chancellor’s seat will go to a longtime rival of Angela Merkel, who opposed “the upstart from East 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 materialized, but the sense of a “wind of change,” at least in the ranks of the Christian Democrats, is hard to deny....