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When Friedrich Merz became Germany’s chancellor this year, he promised to revive a moribund economy, rebuild the nation’s neglected infrastructure and making the country relevant on the global stage again. His failure to deliver on many of these core issues has not only helped energize far-right parties like the Alternative for Germany
Merz also caused confusion at an October meeting of European Union leaders, when he incorrectly reported a trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc had been concluded. He later brushed off the mistake as a minor issue.
That coalition, if they stuck to their word, would last so long it would only fall out of favor when people forgot how bad it was under the CSU coalitions.
Edit: which I should say, Germany is amazing as it currently is. People are unbelievably fortunate to be living nearly anywhere in the EU, let alone Germany. As an immigrant from the US, things are markedly better here and I hope to never leave.