Berlin Tag & Macht: Middle finger to all: Government declaration à la Friedrich Merz

Merz's first declaration of government was a century speech in the sense of: very, very old and already heard a thousand times. The left and the AfD nevertheless brought the chancellor to the barricades - for this some sentences were enough to Israel, Ukraine and the Bundeswehr.

Last Wednesday, Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) opened the substantive work of the new black and red coalition in the Bundestag with a much respected declaration of government. The chancellor stressed the will of his government to be fully at the service of the 84 million citizens. At the centre of his programme is the claim "to give new security", to defend freedom, to secure prosperity for all and to strengthen social cohesion. Merz ma…