Merz’s manoeuvres on world stage fail to quell doubts about his leadership | Friedrich Merz

Friedrich Merz hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a weak leader for 100 days with the attempts to collect West support to the West and to silence Donald Trump’s domestic critics.

The German Chancellor received the initiative for the Lightning Tele conferences that brought Trump and Vice President JD Vance to EU leaders on Wednesday. The arrival of Zelenskyy to Berlin is to sit in the calls in which Merz plays the leading role in diplomatic efforts.

Since he took office in May, he had cut a definite figure on the world scene, largely in June, including the general performance of the German leaders, including keeping him on an oval office face with Trump.

In a survey this week, the extreme right alternative füür deutschland To overtake Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU block with two pointsIt makes it the most powerful party with 26% support in a broken election view. CDU/CSU, who won the general elections of February with approximately 29% of the game, now claims only 24% of the voter intention.

In the last released in the Forsa survey, AFD was last released in April, a political Limbo period between the election and the new government of Merz.

“Mr. Merz has already become unbearable after 100 days – an AFD government is time!” The party’s joint leader Alice Weidel moved to X.

Junior Coalition Partners, Central Left Social Democrats (SPD) received only three points of support from February and only 13% support, which means that if an election is made this weekend, the current administrative alliance, which has already significant cracks, will not win the majority.

In German politics for decades, Merz, a long -jointed grudge against other Christian Democrat Angela Merkel, has fought to reverse a deep pessimistic line discussed in Europe’s best economy.

GDP growth could not show an important return and This year is expected to be flat schedule again.

In June, the government’s decision to provide a decrease in electricity tax for households and small enterprises angered many voters, and a separatist discussion on retirement age received a political wage.

The government, in which Merz tries to wrestle as a problem from AFD, has shown a disagreement in a number of court setbacks and migration that completed his efforts to look decisive with Poland.

Even before he took office, he pioneered a great spending package to Ukraine for internal defense, infrastructure and help. However, the financial hawks in their own camp, the financial hawks relying on the German budget accuracy, was horrified by a measure they saw as a violation of previous campaign promises.

Merz, who had no experience in the government before becoming a chancellor, has gained respect for many Western ally for his loyal support to Ukraine, as Trump’s support trembled.

However, the creation of the stance on the war in Gaza was political forced to alienate its closest allies and the Israeli government while receiving praise from the SPD.

When Benjamin Netanyahu’s civilian death member rose, his military campaign in Strip for weeks, Merz announced last week that Germany will no longer approve of arms shipments that could be used in Gaza.

The leading members of CDU/CSU Bloc said that they said that they said they said they said they had betrayed Germany’s responsibility for Israel’s security since the Holocaust since the Holocaust. Voters, most critical Israel welcomed the increasing military action in Gaza.

Merz’s effort to convince Trump not to sign an agreement with Russia at the summit of Vladimir Putin on Friday, seeing another high -wire statism act on the table in Alaska for Zelenskyy.

Effective Weekly Der Spiegel’s Security Reporter Matthias Geceer said that the European approach was “to take a shower with praise and postponement and try to teach him a little about how to seal a peace agreement”.

“As seen in Berlin, the best scenario will be Europeans who persuade Trump not to hurry” and continue to pressure on Moscow.

“But everyone knows that your chance is not very good. Trump is very impatient when it comes to Ukraine, and he cares about the possibility of a quick agreement with Putin about European interests.”