Pedro Sánchez enters the room with purpose, walks confidently with his folder under his arm, greets the cameras – “good morning” – and goes directly to Chancellor Friedrich Merz. A few pats on the back, hearty laughter, and a friendly chat ensue, all to stage a reconciliation afterward. from the clash over the role the German played alongside Donald Trump when he threatened Spain. The scene, which took place on Thursday in Brussels during the European Council meeting, is the clearest example of Sánchez's ease in the international arena. Knowing he is being watched, he feels recognized for his No to war within the European Union. A winner internally – the CIS (Spanish Center for Sociological Research) confirmed this week that the majority of Spaniards are against the attack on Iran – and also externally, because most European countries They have aligned themselves with the Spanish position against the attack by the USA and Israel. Political The thesis was endorsed this very week. First, it was a outsider...and now everyone wants to be by his side, he recounted.

It seems incredible that a year and a half after Donald Trump's return to the White House, Europeans still haven't reached a common position on how to deal with him. And this despite the fact that, before the war in the Middle East, there was the tariff crisis and the Greenland incident, where his arrogant and erratic behavior was already on full display. In the case of the attack on Iran, there was no common and coherent response until Trump made a decision that clearly goes against European security, such as lifting the embargo on Russian oil. Now, finally, it seems that this decision has united all European leaders (except for the usual suspects like Orbán).

Ahead of the regional elections in March, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, a conservative, is searching for the best way to combat the far right, which he has long considered a "tough rival" and probably his party's "biggest political rival." The leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has categorically rejected any cooperation between his party and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the main opposition party, although some conservative voices have raised the possibility in recent months of opening up to some form of cooperation with the far right.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other European leaders on Monday hailed the "significant progress" in negotiations on Ukraine, following two days of intense and productive talks in Berlin between Ukrainians, Americans, and Europeans. In a joint statement, European leaders They thanked US President Donald Trump for his efforts to "guarantee a just and lasting peace in Ukraine" that preserves "Ukraine's sovereignty and European security."

Friedrich Merz traveled to Israel this weekend for his first visit as Chancellor in an attempt to ease tensions with Benjamin Netanyahu's government. Expectations are high in both countries regarding the German leader's trip. It is the first visit by a European head of government to Israel. following the ceasefire on October 10 between Israel and Hamas more than two years after the start of the war, and it occurs a few weeks after Berlin decided to resume arms exports to Tel Aviv

Representatives of Israel and Hamas will hold indirect talks, mediated by the United States, Egypt, and Qatar, starting Monday to try to approve and sign the twenty-point plan to end the war in Gaza proposed by US President Donald Trump. Negotiations will resume in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh on the very same day. before the second anniversary of the war in Gaza and while they Israeli bombings in the Strip continue, despite Israel's announcement on Saturday of a halt in the offensive. This Sunday at least 24 people died, and in the early hours of this Monday the Israeli army again bombed several points in the Strip, with particular intensity in the capital, and killed at least seven people, according to Al Jazeera.

The "autumn of reforms" that he has promised every time most unpopular German Chancellor Friedrich Merz It's already underway. "Our country faces important decisions this fall," he warned this week during the general debate on the 2025 budget in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German Parliament. The country, traditionally the economic engine of the European Union (EU), is struggling to get going after two consecutive years of recession. Gross domestic product (GDP) has decreased by 0.3% in the second quarter of this year compared to the first three months of the previous year, due in part to the turbulence in global trade. In August, the three million mark was surpassed, a figure unprecedented since February 2015.

The Sánchez-Merz meeting last night In Moncloa it was exactly like this We explained to you yesterday In the morning, in this analysis:

"Wir schaffen das"(We will succeed)," proclaimed the then German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the end of the summer of 2015, in the midst of the refugee crisis in Europe. Merkel's decision to open Germany's doors to refugees between 2015 and 2016 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers, most of them Syrians, divided the country.

The just under 1,000 kilometers of straight-line distance (932) between London and Berlin, and the just over 1,000 (1,096) by road, were reduced to a minimum this Thursday, at least symbolically, after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz signed a far-reaching cooperation treaty in London. Mutual commitments to security, European defense, trade and scientific promotion, migration cooperation, and practical gestures for citizen mobility—even promising a direct high-speed train between the two capitals in ten years—mark this comprehensive bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and Germany, the first since the Second World War.

Renew or die. The cabaret Berlin politician renews his repertoire with the change of government in Germany and the arrival of the conservative Friedrich Merz to the chancelleryThe German dictionary Duden defines cabaret, a Germanized word originating from French cabaret, as "minor art in the form of sketches and songs that parodic and humorously criticize the political situation or current events."

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has in recent days raised the tone of his criticism of Israel for the intensification of the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the dramatic consequences for the civilian population. Merz believes that Israel can no longer justify the suffering of civilians in Gaza with the fight against Hamas

Pay attention to that phrase for history. It was uttered by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: "Germany has an obligation to exercise greater restraint than any other country on Earth when it comes to giving public advice to Israel. But when red lines are crossed, when international humanitarian law is truly violated, the German Chancellor also has an obligation to say something about it."

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz promised on Wednesday that his government would "provide all necessary financial resources" to turn the Bundeswehr – the German army – into the strongest "conventional" armed forces – without nuclear weapons – in Europe. He said this in his first government statement. his troubled investiture.

Germany has also joined the Europe of fragile coalitions. Friedrich Merz has arrived wounded at the chancellery. The Christian Democrat, perennial contender to succeed Angela Merkel, wanted to make his rise to power a show of force for Germany's return to European leadership, but instead he lands as the most obvious symbol of the weakness of the coalition he leads, between the CDU-CSU and a declining social democracy. With a fragmented Bundestag and the far-right Alternative for Germany becoming the leading opposition force, Merz launched an unprecedented parliamentary revolt that points to an unpredictable Germany. The EU's leading power, in the midst of an existential crisis and with urgent political, economic, and security issues pending, sees how the logic of consensus that until now had made Germany one of the pillars of European stability has also been called into question.

"Germany is back on track," proclaimed the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, as the Conservatives and Social Democrats announced their coalition agreement to govern Europe's leading economic powerhouse for the next four years.

With the geopolitical upheaval brought about by Donald Trump's arrival in the White House, the rise of the far right in Europe, and the war in Ukraine, a politically strong Franco-German axis is more necessary than ever. All hopes of French President Emmanuel Macron are pinned on it. in the new German Chancellor, Friedrich MerzThe conservative, from the same party as former Chancellor Angela Merkel, the CDU, is a convinced Europeanist, and Macron seems to be much more in tune with him than with his predecessor, Olaf Scholz. It's customary for a new chancellor's first official trip abroad to be to France, but Merz traveled to Paris less than 24 hours after being appointed. It's quite a statement of intent.

Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz – Friedrich Merz’s full name – has gone from being Angela Merkel’s political rival within the conservative party to becoming Germany’s new chancellor. Merz, 69, will govern Europe’s largest economy for the next four years in coalition with the Social Democrats, after his party won the federal elections last FebruaryAnd after he has gained enough support in the Bundestag to be elected head of government, despite the scare of the first vote, in which he did not obtain enough votes: a warning that he probably will not have a peaceful term in office.

German reliability and predictability have long been a cliché, but the truth is that no one expected what happened this morning in the Bundestag, where chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz obtained only 310 votes out of the 328 votes for the Grand Coalition between the CDU and the SPD, failing to secure the majority needed to be elected. Dismay gripped German politics, as no one clarified who the dissident MPs were who refused to follow their party's slogan or their reasons for boycotting. The fact is that the vote was repeated in the afternoon, and then Merz did receive 325 votes, nine more than the necessary 316.

The second time's the charm. Conservative Friedrich Merz was elected the tenth chancellor of the Republic of Germany this Tuesday in the Bundestag, the lower house of the German Parliament, with 325 votes in favor, after a thrilling day in a country unused to political shocks. Merz finally managed to surpass the 316 votes he needed to succeed Social Democrat Olaf Scholz at the helm of Europe's leading economic power.