“Friedrich Merz has achieved something almost mythical in just under a year as a chancellor: he has united the Germans. East and West, North and South, city and countryside – no trace of polarization. Almost everyone agrees on one thing: they don’t like Merz, and that he’s somehow impossible as chancellor.” (The Guardian, 5/6/26; The Economist, 5/6/26; Der Spiegel – The German View, 5/9/26)
Merz has achieved something almost mythical
