Mario Nawfal
🇩🇪 AFD LEADER: MERZ WILL RUN UP GERMANY’S TAB WITH LIBERAL HELP AfD’s Alice Weidel says CDU's Friedrich Merz will cave to liberal parties and loosen Germany’s strict “debt brake,” sending borrowing through the roof. Merz, a supposed fiscal conservative, has hinted at bending the rules—something Weidel says is a disaster waiting to happen. Weidel: “(He) won't be able to implement anything that he promised. He will compromise with the left to loosen the debt brake, and that's the opposite of what the country needs... The state should function like a company and when a company is over-indebted you know what happens." Source: Reuters
Mario Nawfal
🚨🇩🇪MERZ STEPS UP AS EUROPE’S NEW POWER PLAYER Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, is poised to redefine Europe’s future after his CDU/CSU alliance clinched 29% in yesterday's election. The 69-year-old’s journey is a rollercoaster - rising in the CDU under mentor Wolfgang Schäuble, only to be sidelined by Angela Merkel in 2002. He ditched politics for a lucrative decade at BlackRock and Atlantik-Brücke, pushing U.S-EU ties, then stormed back in 2022 to lead CDU. Yesterday's win hands him Europe’s biggest economy within a transatlantic rift he calls an “epochal severance.” Merz’s pitch? Tough borders, tax cuts, and a Europe unbound from a wobbly U.S. Big dreams, with bigger stakes. Source: Politico
