Friedrich Merz to visit Warsaw and Paris in first trip as German chancellor to stress European unity

The Independent

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After weeks of coalition negotiations, Mr. Merz finally made it to the chancellor’s office late Tuesday afternoon, one failed parliamentary vote and several hours behind schedule.
The New York Times
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The Bundestag narrowly failed to approve him as chancellor at the first attempt, forcing a successful second vote that analysts warn could sap his authority and momentum.
The Telegraph
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No other postwar candidate for German chancellor has failed to win on the first ballot.
The Korea Times
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After Germany’s federal domestic intelligence agency classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a “proven” extremist organization last week, the party received backing from some of the highest-ranking members of Trump’s Cabinet, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who referred to the decision on X as “tyranny in disguise.”
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"Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies" / X
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