Just 18 months in, few in political Berlin expect the luckless coalition of chancellor Friedrich Merz to last its full four-year term. And this week a likely cause of his government’s premature demise was pencilled into the death certificate: mutual recrimination.In May 2025 the coalition of centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) took office facing three inherited problems: a moribund economy, a two-decade reform backlog and an increasingly aggressive Russia.As they struggle with all three, and haemmorage political support, both have turned instead to finger-pointing, in particular claims the other is flirting with political extremists.Amplified...
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