Friedrich Merz, the new leader of Germany, leaps to the world of crisis

Two decades ago, Friedrich Merz, before returning from the private sector to win the Chancellor of Germany, adopted an invitation to the meeting of the French Foreign Legion in the Corsica. At the last moment, the organizers asked him to come to Parade Square, not by road or rail.

Mr Merz, then a corporate lawyer, did not jump from any plane. However, a friend recently recalled that Mr. Merz did not hesitate. He succeeded to jump, but with a little rough decline.

Now 69 and a politician, Mr. Merz, a more careful leap with a similar risk of stumbling.

Mr. Merz, who has no executive experience in the government, will be the 10th chancellor of Germany. 35 years ago, Since the reunion of Eastern and Western Germany, he will start the most difficult time for the nation.

The coalition government, led by the new Chancellor and its central Christian democrats, will land in a number of national crises, including a number of national crises, A. stagnant economy And a connection with the United States.

An immigrant alternative to Germany, Germany’s internal exploration or AFD classified as extremistMr Merz and his main political colleagues surpassed some surveys.

In the months earned by the party in February, Mr. Merz was aggressive about the elimination of these difficulties.

The President criticized the Trump and questioned the stability of American democracy, and he embraced his foreign counterparts to lead a new muscle Europe. In order to hold the “needed” in national defense, the government quickly broke the promise of a major campaign to rest the financial restrictions, to rest the release of the government.

And though To join AFD Shortly before the election, he promised to pass the new immigration restrictions, once again promised to kill them in parliament. He also canceled a collateral to turn away from asylum seekers.

Mr. Merzin says the signs of a flexible politician who has the potential to convey big problems with the German community of actions: growth, defense, immigration.

“I think he is very well prepared and very deep and thoughtful,” said Hell, a deputy Schmitz, who was in the White House under Hell Hw Bush. Mr. Schmitz helped Mr. Merz to work in the German departments of the Chicago law firm, and 2005 jumped from the plane with Mr. Merz.

Others believe that Mr. Merz struggles him to plan a step ahead ahead to break the promises. They say it was cut into popularity.

For him in connection with the cost and migration, his faces remembered most of the conservative voters of their base. Mr Merz and his party collapsed in the box since the election, and Afd drew with them in some research. It starts with one of the lowest confirmation ratings of any German leader in modern times.

“It’s an old saying:” Whatever you do, do smart and think of the end, “he said. “This thinking,” said, “I feel his main power.”

Mr. Schmitz rejects such critics, Mr. Merz is a sign of the leadership of the ability to be flexible.

Mr. Merz is known in the capital and the ability to warm up new ideas. Friends were very impressed than the last man’s talking with him before making a great decision, but once he hated the decision. Sometimes critics caused critics to accuse stubbornness.

In 2020, a 6-meter 6-inch gave Mr. Merz an interview He was asked about the perception of his arrogance. “My size is the only one, of course, a potential goal for such bacities,” he said. “I speak physically, I look down to many people, so it’s just a small step of ‘looking at them’.”

A former corporate lawyer with significant resources, Mr. Merz, both in the country and the party inherited from Angela Merkel, who left the cancerery three and a half years ago.

Reflects the background in a region that determines the background, politics and staff in the Sauerland region of Germany. During his campaign, Mr. Merz fled the heart of the region in the heart of the country in Sauerland for Germany.

Since the original time every two years, a ritual acquaintance of the Middle Ages in the world’s picturesque city of Brilon, while local men walked along the borders of the city without gathering a party for a party in the fields and raised.

“That’s what distinguishes it: He always knows his homeland and knows where he came from,” said Brilon Deputy Mayor of Mr. Merz.

Mr Merz, in every few weeks, generally comes to the city on a Sunday, 97 and 101, 97 and 101, in 97 and 101, are residents say. His wife Charlotte Merz is the judiciary of the local court in the local court, the local court, where they live here and the age of three.

Speaking of being wild as a young man, before turning around and going to university, the new Chancellor began his political career in 1989 in the European Parliament in 1989. Soon he moved to Berlin, he led the ranks of Christian Democrats, noticed for the qualities of the leadership and speech.

After the 2000s, Mr. Merk, Mr. Merkel, after the loss of a power struggle, and the corporate law advised customers who wanted to work in Germany. Mr Merz, after Merkel’s return to politics, including the American Investment Company, including more than one board, retired before returning the competition.

During the election campaign, Mr. Merz tried to hit a while when developing Germany’s economy for a while, the infrastructure has worked on new and bureaucracy.

However, the difficulties attracted many attention to him.

Despite the first finishing in the February elections, Mr. Merzin’s choices were limited because the party performed poorly. He only had a coalition partner, which manages the previous government, which is not extremely popular, and the social Democrats that mark the lower level of parties in February.

Mr. Merz, to provide their votes for military spending and more, gave an unusual number of cabinet positions to the young partner. He softens emigration plans, including shelter seekers’ promise to reject the border.

Mr Merz expressed hope for a positive attitude to Mr. Trump, but the allies say that the US leadership is increasingly damaged by a number of actions. It warned to restart the American troops in Europe and the vice-president of Munich in Munich, which attacks Europeans on “free speech”, and to stop the parties to them like AFD.

Mr. Merz, Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance, Vangon, the President and colleagues of Ukraine, the Oval office, Mr. Vanmyr Zelensky, was amazed by a ally. “I think it was not a spontaneous reaction to Zelenski’s statements, but did not deliberately increase tension during the meeting in the Oval office,” Mr Merz said.

Mr Merz has increasingly retreated, the Germans who warn Germans should be responsible for their safety. “Do you believe that an American government will agree to continue NATO as before?” He asked MPs in March.

Most of the criticism of Mr. Merz’s leadership, also confirmed its position against the United States.

“I believe that he really understands how the global situation has changed and what is changing in the United States,” he said. “He fansaken the trans-and-Atlantic relations, and, of course, Germany, Europe and Europe will try to maintain and stabilize all relations between Europe and the United States. However, he was not destroyed about the difficulties of the upcoming position.”

Tatiana Firsova Reported in Berlin.