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Mostly False: “We Need to Work More and More Efficiently Again”

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On 13 May 2025, Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor, stated in a speech at the Economic Council, an economic policy federal association that is close to his party, the CDU, that “We need to work more and above all, more efficiently in this country again. With a four-day work week and a focus on work-life…

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted that the strategy so far had failed with the AfD in terms of scope. "We want to put it into the matter and also deal with it as a party," he said in the ARD on Sunday. "Ignoring and believing that it would disappear in the long term has obviously not worked," he added with regard to the poll values of the right-wing populist party, which is the strongest opposition party in the Bundestag. One has to solv…

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The German chancellor was a guest in the ARD summer interview on Sunday. He stressed that his party would stick to the incompatibility decision

·Vienna, Austria
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Center

Chancellor Merz has acknowledged that the strategy to date has failed in dealing with the AfD.

·Germany
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As a strategy against the rise of the right-wing AfD, the chancellor wants to strengthen economic development in the East and focus on the topic of migration.

·Vienna, Austria
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In which world does Friedrich Merz live? I don't know, but in any case in a very own way. That becomes clear already in the first minutes of this ARD summer interview. Merz sees things that no one else sees. And reports about worlds and conditions that a person has never perceived before. Actually a clear case for the lexicon of unexplained phenomena: spontaneous healers who let the blind see again – or Friedrich Merz, who looks at Germany. Schl…

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Die Presse broke the news in Vienna, Austria on Sunday, July 13, 2025.
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