Merz Provoked the Fury of Brazilians — "This Is a Nazi and Hitler's Homeless Son": EADaily

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Verbal slippers pave his way. Hardly a week goes by without Friedrich Merz teasing somewhere. Finally, he swindled all of Brazil. The exciters usually follow similar misunderstandings and patterns.

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Friedrich Merz once travelled across the Atlantic to honour the climate summit in Belém. Back home, he destroyed the good impression in a few words. There, others now come up with the shards.

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For statements about Belém Friedrich Merz got a lot of criticism. The government spokesman contradicts the reading and says that the chancellor will not apologize.

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After returning from the UN COP30 climate summit in Belem, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz offended Brazilians by saying that none of the journalists who accompanied him to Brazil wanted to stay there. He said they were all happy to leave.

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After making comments about Belém, the host city of COP30 (30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change), German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU, center-right) referred to the episode again on Wednesday (November 19, 2025). "I said that Germany is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and President Lula will probably agree with that as well," Merz said, according to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. The statement was ma…