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

... in the dynamics of the Ukraine crisis, and the new German government will have to take new realities into account in its actions. The prevailing sentiment among analysts, both in Russia 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 military. Furthermore, the politician’s entire career has been closely linked to transatlantic structures, so it is ...

03.03.2025

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Operation “Successor.” What Should Germany and Russia Expect from the New Leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany?

... Russia–Germany relations will become more dependent on which politicians and experts are in the new chancellor’s team. The composition of the new ruling coalition following the next parliamentary elections will be another key variable in the equation for Russia–Germany relations. The CDU/CSU bloc will likely retain its leadership, but difficulties in choosing a coalition partner are inevitable. Given the fall in the popularity of the social democrats, a new coalition between the CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) ...

13.12.2018

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