The vacation is over: Merz is facing some difficult weeks ahead:
Friedrich Merz is back from his summer vacation. After a brief visit to the area affected by the ...
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Merz faces difficult weeks after summer breakAfter 23 days without televised appearances, Merz visited Hürtgenwald; on Monday, the chancellor returns to Berlin.
- On Saturday, Merz visited Hürtgenwald in the Eifel after the wildfire there had been extinguished on Thursday and thanked the emergency responders.
- Merz returns to government business in Berlin on Monday; according to a YouGov poll, 54 percent do not believe he will remain chancellor until 2029, while 29 percent expect him to serve the full term and 17 percent gave no answer.
- If the CDU performs particularly poorly in the state elections in September, it could lose its minister-president posts in Saxony-Anhalt and Berlin and fall below 10 percent in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
- The three eastern German state premiers oppose ending the penalty-free pension after 45 years of contributions, while Merz and Labour Minister Bärbel Bas insist on keeping the overall package unchanged.
You're not running a company here, you're running a party.— Heiko Strohmann, Bremen CDU state chairman, said this during a memorable CDU board meeting.
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