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

... and abroad, is that Friedrich Merz will pursue a hard line on Russia. His campaign rhetoric reinforces this impression, as the CDU/CSU candidate threatened Moscow with increased support for Ukraine up to the point of supplying Taurus missiles to the Ukrainian ... ... Berlin are locked into a downward trajectory under the new chancellor. Before 2022, Merz had supported the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, and in the summer of 2024, he spoke in favor of launching negotiations on the Ukraine conflict. With ...