BERLIN — Germany's likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has vowed to restore Germany’s industrial competitiveness by putting climate policies on the back burner. Germany’s economic policies have ...
BRUSSELS — Maybe the Franco-German economic engine will soon sputter back to life after all. Germany’s likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, can be good news for the European Union, France’s newly ...
Merz, 69, became leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 2022. He has consistently called China “an increasing threat to [German] security”, been critical of Chancellor ...