After the dramatic hours in the House, the new Chancellor is thrown into the arena of applied foreign policy. , Warsaw, Brussels, London. Kyiv. The route captures priorities.
But how was it possible for future government partners to have not predicted the possibility that Merz would not collect the required majority from the first round last Tuesday? How was it possible not to have at least second thoughts? But what had zero chances, according to statistics based on the elections of all previous German Chancellors after World War II, eventually happened, giving Mertz a no flattering first. Who were the guerrillas? From which party? Why did they do it?
But at the time of the bouquet no one had an appetite for responsibility. More, with the result of the result (310 votes instead of 316), abandoned the plenary hall with his close associates and was fired on the office of the third floor of the House, where the parliamentary groups of all parties are located.
The historical phone call
Outside, in the big foyer, the television authors with the shoulder cameras waited patiently. No one knew what, when, how, the absolute shock, the absolute chaos. Executives of the Social Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Bavarian Christian Socialists were in their offices. In the slightest mobility, journalists ran to capture expressions, read unspecified thoughts, interpret closed mouths. The plenary hall was almost emptied. Only in the upper theory of journalists some were hitting the laptop keys, others were phonetically phoning and the operators had sat on the carpet.
In the foyer, the politicians of all parties, except for the far -right alternative to Germany (AfD), made calls for the “rebels” to hear that it was not the time to “clear accounts”. That the universe is awaiting Germany, in charge, responsibility, an effective government. And then the historic phone call was made.
On the other side of the line were executives of the left Die Linke. A spokesman for the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) begged the party if it could consent to make the second vote on the same day. An overcome because, according to the CDU statutes, any kind of cooperation with the leftbarkeitsbeschluss is prohibited. With those who pre -election, Mertz was overwhelmed as “crazy”. And so Mertz came out of his office, the smile came back on his team’s lips, and the loudspeakers in the historic Refegant building announced the continuation of the discontinued meeting in one hour. At 16.20, with Merz’s swearing -in with a religious oath, he ended the political thriller. He begins his term with clipped wings.
Merzcron like Merkozy?
Journalists who accompanied him last Wednesday on his first visits to Paris and Warsaw, however, did not see traces of gloom. Fresh, with white shirt and blue striped tie, it looked like old Friedrich Mertz. He even gave his first interview to the government aircraft allowing the relay. Something that was not used to today. At his side the Foreign Minister, Johan Vandepuland his consultants.
As Vandpul said in “Vima”, Europe is the primary axis of its German foreign policy, with Berlin as an active member of a group of states. In his analysis in the weekly newspaper “Zeit”, o Fabian Reinholnd calls Germany ‘Leader Middle Power’. The weekly ‘wirtschaftswoche’ describes her as ‘Sleeping Medium Power’. As it is called, any action should go “hand in hand” with France. In fact, the linguists again got a job to name the new total German -French restart as Merzcron, as older Merkozy or Merkollande with Angela Merkel. At the same level as France, Mertz also places Poland by referring to ‘Breaking of Berlin and Warsaw’.
Mertz’s foreign policy architecture was described in detail in his heavy speech at the Hotel De Rome in Berlin, at the end of January, which attracted the entire diplomatic establishment of the German capital. Mertz was clear in the description of Russia and China as axes ‘Revanian and anti -liberal states’. On the contrary, it was less clear than the US. The intervention of the new US administration in the interior of Berlin and the trade war overturns data, although the core of Germany’s Atlantic orientation remains unchanged.
A key body of foreign policy, the newly established National Security Council that will be housed in the Chancellor and will develop the country’s new national security strategy within the year. Co -operation does not necessarily mean the degradation of Vadanpul but Merz’s closer cooperation with a politician of his absolute confidence. The first writing samples of the new Chancellor show in any case that he wants to leave behind the bad start. The opportunity for a new beginning is entitled to it.
