Garvan Walshe: Merz is known to be mercurial. He needs to harness that to bring Germany the change it needs.

Garvan Walshe: Merz is known to be mercurial. He needs to harness that to bring Germany the change it needs.

Garvan Walshe is a former national and international security policy adviser to the Conservative Party. He is founder of Article7 – Intelligence for democrats After Olaf Scholz, the immovable object disguised as Chancellor of Germany, those of us used to faster paced political cultures may have raised an eyebrow at descriptions of his successor Friedrich Merz as “mercurial”.  Compared to Olaf Scholz, the Stone of Hamburg, who wouldn’t qualify? A…