Tag Friedrich Merz

0:2 Against Germany’s Citizens

While Germany watches the FIFA World Cup, the Bundestag is deciding on legislation that will directly affect millions of citizens: higher health insurance costs, increased co-payments, biometric passport data in private hands, expanded powers for security agencies and restricted access to legal challenges. This does not prove a deliberate attempt to hide the legislation - but it does reveal a democratic problem: far-reaching decisions are being pushed through after exceptionally short consultation periods, during a week when public attention is focused almost entirely elsewhere.

Twelve Months of Friedrich Merz

13 percent approval in the Forsa poll of 12 May 2026 – a value Forsa director Peter Matuschek calls historically unprecedented. Chancellor Friedrich Merz himself complains publicly that no German chancellor before him "has had to endure such a thing". A factual probationary-year assessment after twelve months in office: what did Merz promise before taking the chancellorship – and what has he delivered? Debt brake, migration, welfare state, economic turnaround, foreign policy. With a separate chapter on the cui-bono question linking Merz's BlackRock past to his Ukraine policy. Documented with primary sources. Readers draw their own conclusions.

Friedrich Merz After One Year

13 percent approval in the Forsa poll of 12 May 2026 – a value Forsa director Peter Matuschek calls historically unprecedented. Chancellor Friedrich Merz himself complains publicly that no German chancellor before him "has had to endure such a thing". A factual probationary-year assessment after twelve months in office: what did Merz promise before taking the chancellorship – and what has he delivered? Debt brake, migration, welfare state, economic turnaround, foreign policy. With a separate chapter on the cui-bono question linking Merz's BlackRock past to his Ukraine policy. Documented with primary sources. Readers draw their own conclusions.