The Merz Doctrine: What A CDU-Led Government Would Mean For German Foreign Policy – Analysis
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By Jeremy Cliffe and Jana Puglierin
Friedrich Merz’s long and winding journey towards the German chancellery is a tale of the federal republic’s past and present. Marinated in the determinedly pro-European, pro-Western politics of Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the 1990s, he became co-leader of its...