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18 September 2026

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CDU at 7% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern — How Did Germany’s Largest Centre-Right Party Fall This Far?

Friedrich Merz’s CDU is facing a result that would have been almost unimaginable only a few years ago: around 6–7% of the vote.

By EuroAsia.News · 18 September 2026 · 19:02 · 3 min read

• Germany
• Election
• Merz

News

Germany Votes Sunday. Does Merz Survive Monday?

Germany votes on Sunday in two regional elections that have suddenly become something much larger than contests over Berlin housing or the government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. They have become a test for Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

By EuroAsia.News · 18 September 2026 · 00:00 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Merz
• Elections

15 September 2026

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Merz’s €555 Billion Budget Opens a Rebellion on His Own Benches

Friedrich Merz entered office promising economic reform, fiscal seriousness and a break with the paralysis of Germany’s previous government. His 2027 budget is now exposing how difficult those promises are to reconcile.

By EuroAsia.News · 15 September 2026 · 00:00 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Merz
• Macron

8 September 2026

News

Pressure on Merz Is Now Spreading Inside the CDU

Friedrich Merz’s political problem is no longer limited to opposition attacks or bad opinion polls. After the CDU’s disastrous defeat in Saxony-Anhalt, criticism is now moving through his own party from local branches to regional officials.

By EuroAsia.News · 8 September 2026 · 12:27 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Merz
• Elections

7 September 2026

News

AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt Landslide: Merz Can No Longer Blame Anyone Else

Germany’s political establishment may describe the result as a warning, a protest vote or an eastern German anomaly. But after the AfD’s extraordinary victory in Saxony-Anhalt, Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces a more uncomfortable question: how much of this political earthquake has been produced by his own government’s priorities?

By EuroAsia.News · 7 September 2026 · 12:37 · 3 min read

• Germany
• Elections
• AfD
• Politics
• EU

22 August 2026

News

Germany's 13% Chancellor - How Merz's Failed Economic Leadership Is Breaking a Nation

With an approval rating lower than any German chancellor in three decades, Friedrich Merz presides over a country in industrial freefall—where Volkswagen is closing factories, 43% of firms are fleeing overseas, and a government fixated on weapons spending has delivered neither growth nor reform, leaving 78% of citizens deeply dissatisfied and the far-right AfD surging to 28% in the polls.

By EuroAsia.News · 22 August 2026 · 07:21 · 2 min read

• Politics
• Economy
• Germany