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Editor-in-Chief: Merkel 2.0? Why Merz Hardly Changes Anything

Summary by Tichys Einblick
Friedrich Merz is in office – but does he also lead? Thirty days after taking office, Roger Köppel (Weltwoche) takes a sobering balance: Merz is driven above all by the desire for power and the insult by Angela Merkel, but not by the will to renew content. Instead of clear course corrections, he relies on continuity in symbol politics: for example, with the ideologically charged fire wall to the AfD, democratic competition is replaced by exclusi…
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Friedrich Merz is in office – but does he also lead? Thirty days after taking office, Roger Köppel (Weltwoche) takes a sobering balance: Merz is driven above all by the desire for power and the insult by Angela Merkel, but not by the will to renew content. Instead of clear course corrections, he relies on continuity in symbol politics: for example, with the ideologically charged fire wall to the AfD, democratic competition is replaced by exclusi…

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Tichys Einblick broke the news in on Thursday, June 5, 2025.
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