US EditionGeneral Debate in the Bundestag: Merz Promotes "New Consensus of Generations"
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Chancellor Merz (CDU) relies on a pragmatic course to offer the rhetorical escalation of AfD leader Weidel Paroli. The debate in the Bundestag shows what advantage the right-wing party can always take over the other political groups.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz holds a chancellor's speech in the Bundestag. So little combative. Which remains unclear how the domestic political conflicts in which his government is located could be resolved. That helps the AfD.
Miserable survey values and pension rebellion in their own ranks: Seven months after taking office, the chancellor is heavily under pressure. In the general debate, he addresses the downward trend.
It is the culmination of the budget consultations in the Bundestag and for Chancellor Merz the stress test. The CDU chief sees his government on course to implement the necessary reforms. And the tasks are not banal.
Critical, defensive, and poisonous: In the general debate in the Bundestag, government and opposition have sometimes clashed violently. The central scenes in the rapid analysis.
AfD parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel asks a question during the general debate on the federal budget in the Bundestag (symbolic image) (Photo by Tobias Schwarz / AFP via Getty Images) Getty Images Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) defended himself against sharp attacks from all political camps during the general debate on the 2026 federal budget in the Bundestag on Wednesday. After seven months in office, he presented an interim assessment …
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