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The SPD’s Losing Streak Is Merz’ Problem, Too Chancellor Friedrich Merz’ center-right Christian Democrats have had a mixed start to this year’s five federal state elections. But these outcomes are less worrying for the chancellor than the state o...

New #BerlinCable

Another reminder that the Merz government is not as stable as it possibly seems outside of Germany.

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German Intelligence Toughens Up Both the foreign and the domestic German secret intelligence agencies are changing.

New #BerlinCable

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Germans Need to Overcome Their Pessimism Amid tumultuous world events, Germany has become fearful of the future. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is right to try and address this.

New IPQ issue, new #BerlinCable ⬇️

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The Underwhelming Scholz Government Meets an Untimely End The break-up of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’ coalition government was expected, but is still taking place at an extremely critical time. Its successor will have to set clearer priorities—and find greater f...

A year ago, the Scholz government fell apart. This is what I wrote then. Some things have since changed for the better: Germany is now spending big on defense and infrastructure. Other aspects of 🇩🇪 foreign and security policy remain a work-in-progress #BerlinCable ip-quarterly.com/en/underwhel...

Germany’s Government Lacks New Ideas, and It Shows The Christian Democrats and Social Democrats of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’ coalition government have made an effort to get along better. So far, however, they have failed to come up with the new appro...

New #BerlinCable as Merz’ spends two away-days wirh his cabinet.

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Will German Foreign Policy Ever Change Its Spots? Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has started an untimely, and ill-informed, debate about “German boots on the ground in Ukraine.” A more strategic and coherent foreign policy is still a long way off.

New #BerlinCable

Trump’s attempts at summit diplomacy have revived all the old German foreign policy reflexes which one had hoped would be a thing of the past.

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Merz’ Improvised “Dirty Work” Foreign Policy Raises Eyebrows The German chancellor appeared to have no qualms about Donald Trump entering the war against Iran at Israel’s side in order to destroy the Iranian nuclear program.

New #BerlinCable

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A Terrible Start for Merz Germany’s incoming chancellor needed two tries to get the necessary majority in parliament. This has overshadowed the start of Friedrich Merz’ new government, whose foreign policy setup actually looks...

Is "fail again, fail better" new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's motto?

Merz won a parliamentary majority only at the second attempt. Now questions linger with regards to the future stability of the new coalition, writes @henninghoff.bsky.social in #BerlinCable

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A Terrible Start for Merz Germany’s incoming chancellor needed two tries to get the necessary majority in parliament. This has overshadowed the start of Friedrich Merz’ new government, whose foreign policy setup actually looks...

New #BerlinCable

Friedrich Merz needed two tries to become chancellor. His rocky start will overshadow what looks like a promising foreign policy setup.

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The Greens will not be part of the Merz government, but they have shaped its future policies nonetheless. New #BerlinCable

Voted Out of Power, the Greens Are Still Shaping Germany The incoming government of Friedrich Merz needed the Greens to get an unprecedented financial package through parliament. The Greens delivered, in their own way.

New #BerlinCable

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Merz Gets Off to a Zigzagging Start The result of Germany’s election was largely as expected: CDU leader Friedrich Merz should be able to build a two-way coalition government with the big losers of the night, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’ Soc...

New #BerlinCable

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What Will Germany Do Next? The coalition-building after the election on February 23 is likely to become a moment of truth.

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What Will Germany Do Next? The coalition-building after the election on February 23 is likely to become a moment of truth.

New #BerlinCable
(from our special @munsecconf.bsky.social issue)

Germany’s next government will have to borrow more and spend more, in particular on defense.

It’s a reality that will certainly become very apparent at #MSC2025 #GettingEuropesDefenseRight

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A Touch of Trumpism Reaches Germany’s Election Campaign Elon Musk has been trolling Germany’s parliamentary election campaign during the holidays. His AI-supported interventions are unlikely to have much effect, but they remind the country that it needs ne...

New #BerlinCable

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Squaring the Circle Germany has strongly sided with Israel in the aftermath of the brutal attack by Hamas, and for good reasons. However, this poses questions for German foreign policy that will be difficult to address.

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Squaring the Circle

Germany has strongly sided with Israel in the aftermath of the brutal attack by Hamas, and for good reasons.

However, this poses questions for foreign policy that will be difficult to address, says @henninghoff.bsky.social

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