Berlin – Friedrich Merz, of course it becomes After-World War II Germany 10. Chancellor After the election in the country, he promised to prioritize the European unity and the safety of the continent as it is grabbed New Trump Administration and Russian war in Ukraine.
Withdrawing divided Europe together will not be easy when many leaders are too preoccupied with domestic issues to dedicate a lot of energy for the most advantageous problems on the continent. But expectations will be high for MERZ to help meet the leadership vacuum and craft to the United RESPPLATIONS on the recent shooting policy that are swollen transatlantic alliances.
“All signals we receive from the United States suggest that the interest in Europe obviously falls and that the willingness to engage in Europe decreases,” Merz told reporters at the press conference on Monday.
“Still, I hope we can convince Americans that in our mutual interest are that we still have good transatlantic relations.”
The Merz’s task will be complicated with the need to form a coalition with the Social Democrats left at the center of Outstanding Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Repeatedly pledged not to work with Far Right Anti-Immigrant Alternative for Germany Party in spite of their second place.
69-year-old conservative heads head in the center-right Union Bloc, who won German national elections with a 28.5% vote.
“I am also aware of the proportion of the task that now lies in front of us,” he told supporters after his victory on Sunday night. “The world is not waiting for us, and it is not waiting for long – coalition negotiations and coalition negotiations.”
The top job was late in arrival for Merz, lawyer per profession, who saw his climb Former Chancellor Angela Merkel At the beginning of the 2000s, and even a few more years turned back to active politics. Despite his political experience, he goes to the office, and to serve in the government beforehand.
Merkel described Merz as a great speaker and praised the desire for leadership, although she admitted that it was a problem in their relationship.
“We’re almost the same age … We’re completely adult, which was more opportunity than a barrier,” she wrote in her memoir “freedom”.
“But there was one problem, from the beginning: we both wanted us to be boss,” she said.
Merkel moved to strengthen the center for the German environment after the Union was closely lost by the 2002 national elections. Years. She pushed Merz aside as the leader of his parliamentary group in addition to the leadership of the Christian Democratic Party, which has already been held. She continued to lead Germany since 2005. until 2021. years.
Merz turned his back on the active policy for several years after he left Parliament 2009. years.
He practiced the law and headed the Supervisory Board of the Blackrock of the German Branch. During that break, he often traveled for business in the United States and China, although he never lived outside Germany.
“Friedrich Merz may be the International Chancellor Germany from the war – if he became chancellor,” Volker Shing said, who wrote the recently published biography “Friedrich Merz: his way to power.”
Merz relies on personal initiative, to the freedom of an individual, to creativity and motivation. And only secondarily to the state, “he said,” Resing said.
Merz launched his political return after Merkel in 2018. He stepped back as a CDU leader in 2018. and announced that she would not seek the fifth mandate of the Chancellor. However, he was closely defeated from the centrist candidates more in Merkel’s mold in the foreign leadership of the Vote 2018. and early 2021. years.
Merz chose and chose the elected entertainment leader in the third attempt, after the defeat in the central right chancellor Olaf Scholz In Germany 2021 elections. Merz stated his power so that he became the leader of the Union Parliamentary Group.
According to the rezing, Merzov “a way to deal with politics” should not be avoided by the conflict at all costs. Instead, he claims the perspective that “a certain amount of provocation can determine the actual discussion and perhaps actual development in the movement.”
During the election campaign, Merz had promised make the German economy once more strongly and combed irregular migration.
With the President Donald Trump back in the White House and Tensions That Get Rising War in Ukraine, Merz, which has long supported a strong transatlantic relationship, after his main priority they come to face in confrontents from the United States and Russia.
“I have no illusions at all about what is happening from America,” he said supporters. “We are under such a huge pressure … My absolute priority now is really the creation of unity in Europe.”
Merz will be under pressure to get rid of some most urgent problems in Europe, according to Wolfgang Merkel, a political analyst from the social scientific science WBZ Berlin, but we should not expect to hear one voice from Brussels. “
“The interests are so different within the European Union, including political majority, should not expect a common EU policy residence,” he said, and added that it would probably “be the usual blur games.”
Merz attended the election campaign at the top of the election immigration at the top of the election campaign Migrant killed two people in a knife attack In Bavarian City of Aschaffenburg last month.
He brought an insecure proposal before parliament, calling many more migrants to turn in German borders. Request was closely approved thanks to the voices of the far right Alternative to Germany or AFD, party.
This encouraged his opponents to accuse Merz to break tabu allegedly working with AFD IA Public reprimand from Merkel. Critics showed the episode as an illustration of what they say that Merzo is the tendency to impulsivity.
Since then, hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest the MERZ movement, as well as an increase in final law.
Merz insisted that he was nothing wrong and he never worked with AFD, and also swore several times “I never work with fun If it becomes a chancellor.
Merz represents his rural region in the German Parliament – an area where people are “quite suspended to Earth, maybe a little reserved,” Resolution said. “That’s what shaped him: rural life.”
As a politician, Merz has always directed conservative values and stressed the importance of the family.
He met his wife Charlotte, who was now a judge, while studying the law. The couple has three adult children.
Merz joined the CDU in 1972. year and elected European Parliament in 1989. years. He first joined the German Parliament in 1994. years.
Pilot openly passionate in his hobby, Merz sometimes flies with his own little plane from his house at Sauerland Street in West Germany early on Monday morning.
He stuck for flying, despite long hours, which he imposed his job as a leader of the opposition and occasional criticism to leave the hobby of the rich man.
“When you talk to him about flying, his eyes illuminated,” he said, “He said.” He says that when you’re above the cloud, it’s freedom. “
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Joined Presha VideoJournalist Fanny Brodersen in Berlin contributed to this report.
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2025-02-24 13:58:00
