From Fence-Sitter To Pace-Setter: How Merz’s Germany Can Lead Europe – Analysis

By Jeremy Cliffe and Jana Puglierin 

Friedrich Merz wants to be a foreign-policy chancellor. One might not have known it from Germany’s parochial federal election campaign, or the business-as-usual foreign-policy passages of the coalition deal between his Christian Democratic Union (CDU, along with its Bavarian partner the...